Rock'n'Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]I can still remember when I bought
[G]my first gui[A]tar
[D]I remember just how good
the feeling was
Put it [G]proudly in my [A]car
And I [D]played my friends a thou[Bm]sand times
[G]My two song reper[D]toire
And I [G]told my mom her old[A]est
son was gonna be [D]star

[Verse 2]
[D]I bought all the Beatles records
And I [G]tried to sound like [A]Paul
I [D]bought all the old Buddy Holly's,
[G]the 78s and all[A]
[D]And I sat by my record [Bm]player
playing [G]every song they [D]played
And I [G]watched them all on [A]TV
every move [D]they made

[Verse 3]
Rock and Roll, I gave you all [G]the be
st years of my life
The [A]dreamy sunny Sundays
All the [D]magic moonlit nights
I was so busy in the backroom
Writing [G]love songs to you
While you [A]were changing your direction
[G]I never even kne[D]w
That I [A]was always one step
be[D]hind you

[Verse 4]
'66 seemed like the year [G]I was
really going some[A]where
We were [D]living in San Francisco
with [G]flowers in our [A]hair
[D]Singing songs [Bm]of kindness so the
[G]world would under[D]stand
That the [G]guys and me
[A]were something more
Than just another band

[Verse 5]
[D]And '69 in LA well it [G]came
around so [A]slow
But we were [D]really making headway
and [G]writin' lots of [A]toons
We [D]must have played the wild[Bm]est
[G]stuff we had ever [D]played
Because the [G]way the crowds yelled [A]out
for more we thought we had [D]it made

[Verse 6]
Rock and Roll, I gave you all [G]the be
st years of my life
[A]Playing my guitar under
[D]bright and flashing lights
I was so busy on the road
singing [G]love songs to you
While you were chan[A]ging your
[G]direction I never even [D]knew
That I [A]was always one
step be[D]hind you

[Verse 7]
'71 in [G]Soho when I met Suzanne
[A]I was try[D]ing to go it solo
[G]with some else's [A]band
And she [D]came up to me [Bm]later on and I
[G]took her by the [D]hand
[G]And I told her all my [A]troubles and she
seemed to understand
And she [D]followed me to London
through a [G]hundred hotel [A]rooms
Through a [D]hundred record companies
that [G]didn't like my [A]tunes
And she [D]followed me 'til [Bm]fi nally
I [G]sold my old gui[D]tar
And she [G]tried to help me [A]un derstand
that I would never be a [D]star

[Verse 8]
Rock and Roll, [D]I gave
you all the be[G]st years of my life
The [A]dreamy sunny Sundays
All the [D]magic moonlit nights
And though I've never had the chance
Of [G]making it with you
I [A]thank the lord for giving me
[G]the little bit I kne[D]w
[A]And I will always be one
step be[D]hind you

[Verse 9]
Rock and [D]Roll,
I gave you all the [G]best years of my life
[A]Singing out my love songs
[D]