All credit on this one to WayneXG95.
I have just tidied up his version and corrected some lyrics.
WayneXG95 had the right chords but it needs a capo on the first fret.
Rock & Roll (I gave you all the best years of my life)
Kevin Johnson
Intro C Strummed/Picked Slowly (Capo 1)
Verse 1
I can still remember when I brought my first guitar
Remember just how good the feeling was put it proudly in my car
And my family listened fifty times to my two song repertoire
And I told my mom her only son was gonna be a star
Brought all the Beatles records sounded just like Paul
Brought all the old Chuck Berry's seventy eights and all
And I sat by my record player playing every note they played
And I watched them all on TV making every move they made
Chorus
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny sundays all the moonlit summer nights
I was so busy in the backroom writing love songs to you
While you were changing your direction and you never even knew
That I was always just one step behind you
Verse 2
'66 seemed like the year I was really going somewhere
We were living in San Francisco with flowers in our hair
Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand
That the guy's and me were something more than just another band
And then '69 in LA came around so soon
We were really making head way writing lots of tunes
And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played
And the crowds cried out for us well we thought we had it made
Chorus 2
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
All the crazey lazy young days all the magic moonlit nights
I was so busy on the road singing love songs to you
While you were changing your direction and you never even knew
That I was always just one step behind you
Do Do Do etc ( x2)
Verse 3
'71 in Soho when I saw Suzanne
I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band
And she came up to me later and took her by the hand
And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand
And she followed me through London through a hundred hotel rooms
Through a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes
And she followed me when finally I sold my old guitar
And she tried to help me understand I'd never be a star
Chorus 3
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny sundays all the moonlit summer nights
And though I never knew the magic of making it with you
I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew
And I will always be one step behind you
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
Singing out my love songs on a bright lit magic night
And though I never knew the magic of making it with you
I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny sundays all the moonlit summer nights
I was so busy in the backroom writing love songs for you
While you were changing your direction and you never even knew
Rep...Fade