Rock'n'Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) chords by
Terry Jacks
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Verse 1
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I can still remember when I bought
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my first guitar
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I remember just how good
the feeling was
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Put it proudly in my car
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And I played my friends a thousand times
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My two song repertoire
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And I told my mom her oldest
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son was gonna be star
Verse 2
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I bought all the Beatles records
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And I tried to sound like Paul
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I bought all the old Buddy Holly's,
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the 78s and all
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And I sat by my record player
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playing every song they played
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And I watched them all on TV
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every move they made
Verse 3
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Rock and Roll, I gave you all the be
st years of my life
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The dreamy sunny Sundays
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All the magic moonlit nights
I was so busy in the backroom
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Writing love songs to you
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While you were changing your direction
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I never even knew
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That I was always one step
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behind you
Verse 4
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'66 seemed like the year I was
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really going somewhere
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We were living in San Francisco
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with flowers in our hair
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Singing songs of kindness so the
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world would understand
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That the guys and me
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were something more
Than just another band
Verse 5
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And '69 in LA well it came
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around so slow
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But we were really making headway
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and writin' lots of toons
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We must have played the wildest
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stuff we had ever played
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Because the way the crowds yelled out
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for more we thought we had it made
Verse 6
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Rock and Roll, I gave you all the be
st years of my life
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Playing my guitar under
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bright and flashing lights
I was so busy on the road
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singing love songs to you
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While you were changing your
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direction I never even knew
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That I was always one
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step behind you
Verse 7
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'71 in Soho when I met Suzanne
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I was trying to go it solo
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with some else's band
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And she came up to me later on and I
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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 to London
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through a hundred hotel rooms
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Through a hundred record companies
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that didn't like my tunes
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And she followed me 'til fi nally
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I sold my old guitar
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And she tried to help me un derstand
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that I would never be a star
Verse 8
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Rock and Roll, I gave
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you all the best years of my life
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The dreamy sunny Sundays
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All the magic moonlit nights
And though I've never had the chance
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Of making it with you
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I thank the lord for giving me
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the little bit I knew
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And I will always be one
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step behind you
Verse 9
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Rock and Roll,
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I gave you all the best years of my life
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Singing out my love songs
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