INTRO:
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VERSE: (Singls Strums for the 1st Verse)
D                             G                 A
I can still remember when I bought my first guitar
            D
I remember just how good the feeling was
        G             A
Put it proudly in my car
        D                   Bm
And I played my friends a thousand times
    G             D
My two song repertoire
       G               A              A        D
And I told my mom her oldest son was gonna be star


VERSE:
D
I bought all the Beatles records
        G                  A
And I tried to sound like Paul
    D                                   G        A
I bought all the old Buddy Holly’s, the 78s and all
       D                Bm             G               D
And I sat by my record player playing every song they played
       G                  A                   D
And I watched them all on TV every move they made


CHORUS:
 D                                G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
      A
The dreamy sunny Sundays
         D
All the magic moonlit nights

          D
I was so busy in the backroom
         G
Writing love songs to you
                 A
While you were changing your direction
G             D
I never even knew
           A                  D
That I was always one step behind you


VERSE:
 D                              G                 A
‘66 seemed like the year I was really going somewhere
         D                            G              A
We were living in San Francisco with flowers in our hair
 D                Bm              G                 D
Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand
          G                A
That the guys and me were something more
 A
Than just another band


VERSE:
     D                 G              A
And ‘69 in A  well it came around so slow
             D                          G              A
But we were really making headway and writin’ lots of tunes
        D                    Bm           G             D
And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played
            G                     A                                 D
'Cause the way the crowds yelled out for more we thought we had it made


CHORUS:
 D                                G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
  A                       D
Playing my guitar under bright and flashing lights
          D                        G
I was so busy on the road singing love songs to you
                 A                     G             D
While you were changing your direction I never even knew
           A                  D       
That I was always one step behind you.

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VERSE:
 D          G                 A
‘71 in Soho is when I met Suzanne
       D                         G              A
I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band
         D             Bm             G               D
And she came up to me later on and I took her by the hand
       G                A
And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand


VERSE:
         D                               G             A
And she followed me to London through a hundred hotel rooms
           D                             G              A
Through a hundred record companies that didn’t like my tunes
         D                Bm        G              D
And she followed me 'til finally I sold my old guitar
          G               A                              D
And she tried to help me understand that I'd never be a star


CHORUS:
 D                                G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
      A
The dreamy sunny Sundays
         D
All the magic moonlit nights

                D
And though I’d never had the chance
    G
Of making it with you
    A                           G                D
I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew
            A                    D
And I will always be one step behind you


OUTRO:
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Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
 A
Singing out my love songs... - FDE  OUT -