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

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Oh, I can still remember when I bought my first guitar<br />

Remember walking from the shop to put it proudly in my car<br />

And my family listened fifty times to my two song repertoire<br />

I told my Mom her only son was gonna be a star.<br />

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Well I bought all the Beatles records, sounded just like hall<br />

Or Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry's, seventy-eight in all<br />

And I sat by my record player playing every note they played<br />

I watched them all on TV, copied every move they made.<br />

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Oh, Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life<br />

All the teeny sunny Sundays, all the moonless summer nights<br />

I was so busy in the bed room, writing love songs to you<br />

But you were changing your direction and I never even knew<br />

That I was always just one step behind you.<br />

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Well, sixty-six seemed like the year I was really goin' somewhere<br />

I was living in San Francisco wearing flowers in my hair<br />

Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand<br />

The guys and me thought wer were more than just another band.<br />

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Oh, Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life<br />

All the crazy, lazy young days, all the magic moony nights<br />

I was so busy on the road, singing love songs to you<br />

But you were changing your direction and you never even knew<br />

That I was always just one step behind you.<br />

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Seventy-one I was all alone when I met Sarah-Jane<br />

I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band<br />

When she came up to me softly and she took me by the hand<br />

She listened to my problems and she seemed to understand.<br />

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And she followed me to London to a hundred hotel rooms<br />

To a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes<br />

And she followed me back to Tennessee where she findly made me see<br />

I'm just a plain old Country boy and that's all I'll ever be.<br />

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Oh, Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life<br />

All the teeny sunny Sundays, all the moonless summer nights<br />

Oh, I never knew the magic I'm making it with you<br />

I'm getting along with a Country song doing what I wanna do<br />

When I was always just one step behind you.