Rock and roll gave me the best years of my life (the Cats)

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

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Rock and 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 love songs to you
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While you were changing your direction and never even knew 
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That I was always just one step behind you.

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

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

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 Seventy-one and so alone when I met Susanne,
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I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band.
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She came up to me later and I took her by the hand,
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And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand.
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And she followed me through London, through a hundred hotel rooms, 
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Through a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes; 
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She followed me when finally I sold my old guitar, 
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She tried to help me understand I'd   never be a star.

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Rock and 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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And though I never knew the magic, of making it with you
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That I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew
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And I was always just one step behind you.