ROCK N ROLL I GAVE YOU ALL THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE
JOHNSON, KEVIN


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    1. I can still remember when I bought my first guitar
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       I remember just how good the feeling was, put it
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       proudly in my car
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       And my family listen fifty times to my two song repertoire
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       And I told my Mum her only son was going to be a star


    2. Bought all the Beatles' records, sounded just like Paul
       Bought all the old Chuck Berry's, seventy-eight's and all
       And I sat by my record player, playing every note they played
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       And I watched them all on TV making every move they make


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 Ref.: Rock'n'Roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
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       All the dreamy sunny sundays, all the moonlit summer nights
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       I was so busy in the backroom writing lovesongs to you
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       But you were changing your direction, never even knew
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       That I was only just one step behind you


    3. '66 seemed like the year I was really going somewhere, we were
       Living in San Francisco with flowers in the hair
       Singing songs of kidness so the world would understand
       That the guys and me were something more than just another band


    4. And then '69 in L.A. came around so soon
       We were really making heavy, writing lots of tunes
       And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played
       The way the crowds cried out for us we thought we had it made


 Ref.: Rock'n'Roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
       All the crazy lazy young days, all the magic moonlit nights
       I was so busy in the backroom writing lovesongs to you
       But you were changing your direction, never even knew
       That I was only just one step behind you


    5. '71 in Soho, when I saw Suzanne.
       I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band
       And she came up to me lately and I took her by the hand
       And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand


    6. Then she followed me thru London to a hundred hotel rooms
       To a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes
       And she followed me when finally I sold my old guitar
       And she tried to help me understand I'd never be a star

 Ref.: Rock'n'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 lose the passion of making it with you
       Thanks a lot for giving me the little that I knew
       And I will always be one step behind you


 Ref.: Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
       Singing out my love-songs in the brightly flashing lights
       And though I never lose the passion of making it with you
       Thanks a lot for giving me the little that I knew


 Ref.: Rock'n'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 lovesongs to you
       But you were changing your direction, never even knew
       That I was only just one step behind you