Rock and roll gave me the best years of my life (the Cats) D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) A (x02220@1)I can still remember when I bought my first guitar, D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) ARemember (x02220@1)just how good the feeling to put it proudly in my car, D7 (xx0212@1) B7 (x21202@1) EmAnd (022000@1)my fam'ly listened fifty times to my two song repertoire. G (320003@1) AI (x02220@1)told my mom her only son was gonna be a star. D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) A (x02220@1)Bought all the Beatles records, I sounded just like Paul, D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) AI (x02220@1)bought all the old Chuck Berry's 78's and all D7 (xx0212@1) B7 (x21202@1) EmI (022000@1)sat by my record player playing ev'ry note they played. G (320003@1) A (x02220@1) DI (xx0232@1)watched them all on TV making ev'ry move they made. D (xx0232@1) GRock (320003@1)and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) DAll (xx0232@1)the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moonlit summer nights. GI (320003@1)was so busy in the backroom writing love songs to you A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) DWhile (xx0232@1)you were changing your direction and never even knew A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) DThat (xx0232@1)I was always just one step behind you. D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) A (x02220@1)'66 seemed like the year I was really going somewhere; D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) AWe (x02220@1)were living in San Francisco with flowers in our hair, D7 (xx0212@1) B7 (x21202@1) Em (022000@1) Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand, G (320003@1) ATo (x02220@1)the guys and me you were something more than just another band. D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) AAnd (x02220@1)then sixty-nine in L. A. came around so soon, D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) AWe (x02220@1)were really making headway and writing lots of tunes, D7 (xx0212@1) B7 (x21202@1) EmAnd (022000@1)we must have played the wildest stuff that we had ever played, G (320003@1) A (x02220@1) DAnd (xx0232@1)the way the crowds cried out for us, we thought we had it made. D (xx0232@1) GRock (320003@1)and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) DAll (xx0232@1)the crazy, lazy, young days, all the magic moon at night. GI (320003@1)was so busy on the road singing love songs to you, A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) DWhile (xx0232@1)you were changing your direction and never even knew A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) DThat (xx0232@1)I was always just one step behind you. D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) A (x02220@1)Seventy-one and so alone when I met Susanne, D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) AI (x02220@1)was trying to go it solo with someone else's band. D7 (xx0212@1) B7 (x21202@1) EmShe (022000@1)came up to me later and I took her by the hand, G (320003@1) AAnd (x02220@1)I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand. D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) AAnd (x02220@1)she followed me through London, through a hundred hotel rooms, D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1) AThrough (x02220@1)a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes; D7 (xx0212@1) B7 (x21202@1) EmShe (022000@1)followed me when finally I sold my old guitar, G (320003@1) A (x02220@1) DShe (xx0232@1)tried to help me understand I'd never be a star. D (xx0232@1) GRock (320003@1)and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) DAll (xx0232@1)the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moonlit summer nights. GAnd (320003@1)though I never knew the magic, of making it with you A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) DThat (xx0232@1)I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) DAnd (xx0232@1)I was always just one step behind you.
