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