Rock And Roll I Gave The Best Years Of My Life lyrics

Artist  : Mac Davis 
Song : Rock And Roll I Gave The Best Years Of My Life
 


Rock And Roll (I gave the best years of my
life)
Mac Davis

I can still
remember
When I bought my first
guitar,
Remember just how good the
feeling
To put it proudly in my car,
And my
fam'ly listened fifty times
To my two song
repertoire.
I told my mom
Her only son was
gonna be a star.
Bought all the Beatles
records,
I sounded just like Paul,
I bought
all the old Chuck Berry's 78's and all
I sat
by my record player
Playing ev'ry note they
played.
I watched them all on TV
Making
ev'ry move they made.

Rock and roll, I
gave you all
The best years of my life
All
the dreamy sunny Sundays,
All the moonlit
summer nights.
I was so busy in the
backroom
Writing love songs to you
While
you were changing your direction
And you never
even knew
That I was always just one step
behind you.

'66 seemed 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,
> To the guys and me
you were something more
> Than just another
band.
>
> And then sixty-nine in L. A.
>
Came around so soon,
We were really making
headway
And writing lots of tunes,
And we
must have played
The wildest stuff that we had
ever played,
And the way the crowds cried out
for us,
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 you never
even knew
That I was always just one step
behind you.

Seventy-one and so
alone
When I met Susanne,
I was trying to
go it solo
With someone else's band.
She
came up to me later
And I took her by the
hand,
And I told her all my troubles
And
she seemed to understand.

And she followed
me through London
Through a hundred hotel
rooms,
Through a hundred record
companies
Who didn't like my tunes;
She
followed me when finally
I sold my old
guitar,
She tried to help me
Understand I'd
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 summer
nights,
And though I never knew
The magic
of making it with you,
That I thank the Lord
for giving me
The little bit I knew,
And I
was always just one step behind you.