Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)

Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - The Cats

Written by：Kevin Johnson

I can still remember when I bought my first guitar

Remember just how good the feeling was put it prowdly in my car

And my family listened fifity times to my two songs repertoire

And I told mama her only son was gonna be a star

Bought all the Beatles records sounded just like Paul

Bought all the Chuck Berrys 78s and all

And I sat by my recordplayer 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 dreaming sunny Sundays all the moonlit summernight

I was so busy in the backrooom writing lovesongs to you

While you were changing your direction and never even knew

That I was always just one step behind you

66 seems like the year I was really going somewere

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

The way the crowds cried out for us well we thought we had it made

Rock and roll I gave you are 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 lovesongs to you

While you were changing your direction and never even knew

That I was always just one step behind you

71 in Soho when I saw Suzanne

I was try it to go solo with someone elses 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 hotelrooms

Through a hundred record compagnys who didn't like my tune

And she followed me when finally I sold my old guitar

And she tried to help me understand that I never be a star

Rock and roll I gave you all the best years of my life

All the dreamy sunny Sundays

All the moonlit summernight

And though I've 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 summernight

I was so busy in the band road writting love songs to you

While you were changing your direction I 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