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5 popular songs
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| I can still remember when I | bought my first gui | tar, |
| C | F | G | |
| Remember | walking from the shop to put it | proudly in my | car, |
| C7 | A7 | Dm | |
| And my | fam'ly listened fifty times to my | two song reper | toire. |
| F | G | |
| I told my mom her only son was | gonna be a | star. |
| C | F | G | |
| Bought all the Beatles records, I | sounded just like | Paul, |
| C | F | G | |
| I | bought all the old Chuck Berry's | 78's and | all |
| C7 | A7 | Dm | |
| I | sat by my record player playing | ev'ry note they | played. |
| F | G | C | |
| I watched them all on TV copied | ev'ry | move they | made. |
| C | F | |
| Rock and roll, I gave you all the | best years of my life |
| G | F | C | |
| All the | dreamy sunny Sundays, all the | moonlit summer | nights. |
| F | |
| I was so busy in the backroom writing | love songs to you |
| G | F | C | |
| While you were | changing your direction and you | never even | knew |
| G | F | C | |
| That I was | always just | one step be | hind you. |
| C | F | G | |
| '66 seemed like the year I was | really going | somewhere; |
| C | F | G | |
| I was | living in San Francisco with | flowers in my | hair, |
| C7 | A7 | Dm | |
| Singing songs of kindness so the | world would under | stand, |
| F | G | C | |
| The guys and me tought we were more than | just | another | band. |
| C | F | |
| Rock and roll, I gave you all the | best years of my life |
| G | F | C | |
| All the | crazy, lazy, young days, all the | magic moon at | night. |
| F | |
| I was so busy on the road singing | love songs to you, |
| G | F | C | |
| While you were | changing your direction and you'd | never even | knew |
| G | F | C | |
| That I was | always just | one step be | hind you. |
| C | F | G | |
| Seventy-one and I was all alone | when I met Sara- | Jan, |
| C | F | G | |
| I was | trying to go it solo with | someone else's | band. |
| C7 | A7 | Dm | |
| She | came up to me softly and she | took me by the h | and, |
| F | G | |
| She listened to my problems and she | seemed to under | stand. |
| C | F | G | |
| And she | followed me to London, to a | hundred hotel | rooms, |
| C | F | G | |
| To a | hundred record companies who | didn't like my | tunes; |
| C7 | A7 | Dm | |
| She | followed me back to Tennessee where she | finally made me | see |
| F | G | C | |
| I'm just a plain old country boy and that's | all i'll | ever | be |
| C | F | |
| Rock and roll, I gave you all the | best years of my life |
| G | F | C | |
| All the | dreamy sunny Sundays, all the | moonlit summer | nights. |
| F | |
| And though I never knew the magic, of | making it with you |
| G | F | C | |
| I'm get | ting along with my country songs, doing | what I swore to | do |
| G | F | C | |
| And I was | always just | one step be | hind you. |
