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.