Rock and roll gave me the best years of my life (the Cats) D5 G5 A5 I can still remember when I bought my first guitar, D5 G5 A5 Remember just how good the feeling to put it proudly in my car, D5 B5 E5 And my fam'ly listened fifty times to my two song repertoire. G5 A5 I told my mom her only son was gonna be a star. D5 G5 A5 Bought all the Beatles records, I sounded just like Paul, D5 G5 A5 I bought all the old Chuck Berry's 78's and all D5 B5 E5 I sat by my record player playing ev'ry note they played. G5 A5 D5 I watched them all on TV making ev'ry move they made. D5 G5 Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life A5 G5 D5 All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moonlit summer nights. G5 I was so busy in the backroom writing love songs to you A5 G5 D5 While you were changing your direction and never even knew A5 G5 D5 That I was always just one step behind you. D5 G5 A5 '66 seemed like the year I was really going somewhere; D5 G5 A5 We were living in San Francisco with flowers in our hair, D5 B5 E5 Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand, G5 A5 To the guys and me you were something more than just another band. D5 G5 A5 And then sixty-nine in L. A. came around so soon, D5 G5 A5 We were really making headway and writing lots of tunes, D5 B5 E5 And we must have played the wildest stuff that we had ever played, G5 A5 D5 And the way the crowds cried out for us, we thought we had it made. D5 G5 Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life A5 G5 D5 All the crazy, lazy, young days, all the magic moon at night. G5 I was so busy on the road singing love songs to you, A5 G5 D5 While you were changing your direction and never even knew A5 G5 D5 That I was always just one step behind you. D5 G5 A5 Seventy-one and so alone when I met Susanne, D5 G5 A5 I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band. D5 B5 E5 She came up to me later and I took her by the hand, G5 A5 And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand. D5 G5 A5 And she followed me through London, through a hundred hotel rooms, D5 G5 A5 Through a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes; D5 B5 E5 She followed me when finally I sold my old guitar, G5 A5 D5 She tried to help me understand I'd never be a star. D5 G5 Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life A5 G5 D5 All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moonlit summer nights. G5 And though I never knew the magic, of making it with you A5 G5 D5 That I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew A5 G5 D5 And I was always just one step behind you.
