Rock 'N' Roll

I can still remember when I bought 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 songs repertoire And I told my mom her only son was gonna be a star Bought all the Beatles records, sounded just like Paul Bought all the old Chuck Berry's, 78's 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 Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my live All the dreamin' sunny Sundays, all the moonlit summer night I was busy in the backroom writing love songs to you While you were changing your direction and never even knew that I was always one step behind you '66 Seems 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 guys and me were something more than just another band And then '69 in L.A. came around so soon We were really making headway and writing a lots of tunes And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played And the way the crowds cried out for us, well, we thought we had it made Rock and roll I gave you all the best years of my life All the crazy lazy young days, all the magic moon at night I was so busy on the road singing love songs to you While you were changing your direction and never even knew that I was always one step behind you '71 in Soho when I saw Suzanne I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band She came up to me lately, took her by the hand I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand And she followed me through London, through the hundred hotel rooms Through a hundred record companies, who didn't like my tune And she followed me when finally I sold my old guitar And she tried to help me understand, I never been a star Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my live All the dreamin' sunny Sundays, all the moonlit summer night And though I never knew the magic of makin' it with you I thank the road for giving me the little bit I knew Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my live All the dreamin' sunny Sundays, all the moonlit summer night I was busy in the backroom writing love songs to you While you were changing your direction and never even knew Rock and roll I gave you all the best years of my life All the crazy lazy young days, all the magic moon at night I was so busy on the road...