Rock And Roll I Gave The Best Years Of My Life Lyrics

Rock And Roll I Gave The Best Years Of My Life

Rock And Roll (I gave the best years of my life)
Mac Davis

I can still
remember
When I bought my first guitar,
Remember just how good the
feeling
To put it proudly in my car,
And my fam'ly listened fifty
times
To my two song repertoire.
I told my mom
Her only son was gonna
be a star.
Bought all the Beatles records,
I sounded just like Paul,
I
bought all the old Chuck Berry's 78's and all
I sat by my record
player
Playing ev'ry note they played.
I watched them all on TV
Making
ev'ry move they made.

Rock and roll, I gave you all
The best years of
my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays,
All the moonlit summer nights.
I
was so busy in the backroom
Writing love songs to you
While you were
changing your direction
And you never even knew
That I was always just
one step behind you.

'66 seemed like the year
I was really going
somewhere;
> We were living in San Francisco
> With flowers in our
hair,
> Singing songs of kindness
> So the world would understand,
>
To the guys and me you were something more
> Than just another
band.
>
> And then sixty-nine in L. A.
> Came around so soon,
We
were really making headway
And writing lots of tunes,
And we must have
played
The wildest stuff that we had ever played,
And the way the crowds
cried out for us,
We thought we had it made.

Rock and roll, I gave
you all
The best years of my life,
All the crazy, lazy, young
days,
All the magic moon at night.
I was so busy on the road
Singing
love songs to you,
while you were changing your direction
And you never
even knew
That I was always just one step behind you.

Seventy-one and
so alone
When I met Susanne,
I was trying to go it solo
With someone
else's band.
She came up to me later
And I took her by the hand,
And I
told her all my troubles
And she seemed to understand.

And she
followed me through London
Through a hundred hotel rooms,
Through a
hundred record companies
Who didn't like my tunes;
She followed me when
finally
I sold my old guitar,
She tried to help me
Understand I'd
never be a star.

Rock and roll, I gave you
All the best years of my
life,
All the dreamy, sunny Sundays,
All the moonlit summer
nights,
And though I never knew
The magic of making it with you,
That
I thank the Lord for giving me
The little bit I knew,
And I was always
just one step behind you.