Autoscroll
1 Column 
Text size
Transpose 0
Rock and roll gave me the best years of my life (the Cats)
C I can still remember when I Fbought my first guiGtar, Remember Cjust how good the feeling to put it Fproudly in my Gcar, And my C7fam'ly listened fifty times to my A7two song reperDmtoire. I told my mom her only son was Fgonna be a Gstar. C Bought all the Beatles records, I Fsounded just like GPaul, I Cbought all the old Chuck Berry's F78's and Gall I C7sat by my record player playing A7ev'ry note they Dmplayed. I watched them all on TV making Fev'ry Gmove they Cmade.
CRock and roll, I gave you all the Fbest years of my life All the Gdreamy sunny Sundays, all the Fmoonlit summer Cnights. I was so busy in the backroom writing Flove songs to you While you were Gchanging your direction and Fnever even Cknew That I was Galways just Fone step beChind you.
C '66 seemed like the year I was Freally going Gsomewhere; We were Cliving in San Francisco with Fflowers in our Ghair, C7 Singing songs of kindness so the A7world would underDmstand, To the guys and me you were something more than F just another Gband. And then Csixty-nine in L. A. Fcame around so Gsoon, We were Creally making headway and Fwriting lots of Gtunes, And we C7must have played the wildest stuff that A7we had ever Dmplayed, And the way the crowds cried out for us, we Fthought we Ghad it Cmade.
CRock and roll, I gave you all the Fbest years of my life All the Gcrazy, lazy, young days, all the Fmagic moon at Cnight. I was so busy on the road singing Flove songs to you, While you were Gchanging your direction and Fnever even Cknew That I was Galways just Fone step beChind you.
C Seventy-one and so alone Fwhen I met SuGsanne, I was Ctrying to go it solo with Fsomeone else's Gband. She C7came up to me later and I A7took her by the Dmhand, And I told her all my troubles and she Fseemed to underGstand. And she Cfollowed me through London, through a Fhundred hotel Grooms, Through a Chundred record companies who Fdidn't like my Gtunes; She C7followed me when finally I A7sold my old guiDmtar, She tried to help me understand I'd F never Gbe a Cstar.
CRock and roll, I gave you all the Fbest years of my life All the Gdreamy sunny Sundays, all the Fmoonlit summer Cnights. And though I never knew the magic, of Fmaking it with you That I Gthank the lord for giving me the Flittle bit I Cknew And I was Galways just Fone step beChind you.