Chords for Kevin Johnson - Rock and Roll (I gave you the best years of my life 1982

[D#] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ I can still remember when [F#] I bought my first [G#] guitar
Remember [C#] just how good the feeling was
[F#] Put it proudly in [G#] my car
[C#] And my family [F#] listened fifty [A#m] times
To my two [D#m]-song repertoire
And I told my mum her only [F#] son was
[G#] Gonna [C#] be a star
Bought all the beating records
[F#] Sounded [G#] just like corn
[C#] Bought all the old Chuck [F#] Berry's
Seventy [G#]-eights and all
[C#] And I sat by my record player
[A#] Playing every [D#m] note they played
And I watched them all on TV
[F#] Making [G#] every [C#] move they made
Rock and roll I gave you
[F#] All the best years of my life
[G#] All the dreamy sunny Sundays
[F#] All the moonlit [C#] summer nights
I was so busy in the night
[F#] Writing love songs to you
While you [G#] were changing your direction
[F#] Never [C#] realized that [G#] I was older
Just one step [C#] behind you _ _
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Sixty-six seemed like [F#] the year
I was really [G#] going somewhere
[C#] We were living in San Francisco
[F#] With flowers [G#] in our hair
[C#] Singing [F#] songs of [A#m] kindness
So [D#m] the world would understand
_ That the guys and me
Were something [F#] more than just [G#] another band
[C#] _ Sixty-nine in L.A.
[F#] Came [G#] around so soon
[C#] We were really making it
[F#] Writing [G#] love to tunes
We [C#] must have played
The wildest stuff [A#]
[D#m] we had ever played
The way the crowds cried out [F#] for it
[C#] Thought we had it made
_ _ Rock and roll I gave [F#] you
All the best years of my life
[G#] All the crazy lazy Sundays
[F#] All the magic [C#] moonlit nights
I was so busy on the road
[F#] Singing love songs to you
While [G#] you were changing your direction
[F#] Never [C#] even knew that [G#] I was older
Just one step [C#] behind you
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_ [G#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
_ So the [F#] world _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
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would understand
That the guys and me
Seventy-one in Soho
[F#] When [G#] I saw Suzanne
[C#] I was trying to go solo
_ [F#] With someone [G#] else's band
[C#] And she came up [B] to me, lady
[A#] And took [D#m] her by the hand
_ And I told her all my troubles
[F#] And she seemed to [G#] understand
And [C#] she followed me through London
[F#] Through a hundred [G#] hotels
Through [C#] a hundred record companies
[F#] Didn't like [G#] my tunes
[C#] She followed me when
Finally [A#] I sold my [D#m] old guitar
And she tried to help me understand
[F#] I'd [C#] never [G#] be [C#] a star _ _
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_ _ _ _ Rock and roll I gave you
[F#] All the best years of my life
[G#] All the dreamy sunny Sundays
[F#] And the [C#] moonlit song nights _ _ _ _
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