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Date: 1/4/04; 7:48:04 PM
>From: "Alex Rensen" <amrensen@zonnet.nl>
Subject: Mac Davis - Rock and Roll
Mac Davis - Rock and roll gave me the best years of my life
C F G
I can still remember when I bought my first guitar,
C F G
Remember walking from the shop to put it proudly in my car,
C7 A7 Dm
And my fam'ly listened fifty times to my two song repertoire.
F G
I told my mom her only son was gonna be a star.
C F G
Bought all the Beatles records, I sounded just like Paul,
C F G
I bought all the old Chuck Berry's 78's and all
C7 A7 Dm
I sat by my record player playing ev'ry note they played.
F G C
I watched them all on TV copied ev'ry move they made.
C F
Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
G F C
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moonlit summer nights.
F
I was so busy in the backroom writing love songs to you
G F C
While you were changing your direction and you never even knew
G F C
That I was always just one step behind you.
C F G
'66 seemed like the year I was really going somewhere;
C F G
I was living in San Francisco with flowers in my hair,
C7 A7 Dm
Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand,
F G C
The guys and me tought we were more than just another band.
C F
Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
G F C
All the crazy, lazy, young days, all the magic moon at night.
F
I was so busy on the road singing love songs to you,
G F C
While you were changing your direction and you'd never even knew
G F C
That I was always just one step behind you.
C F G
Seventy-one and I was all alone when I met Sara-Jan,
C F G
I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band.
C7 A7 Dm
She came up to me softly and she took me by the hand,
F G
She listened to my problems and she seemed to understand.
C F G
And she followed me to London, to a hundred hotel rooms,
C F G
To a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes;
C7 A7 Dm
She followed me back to Tennessee where she finally made me see
F G C
I'm just a plain old country boy and that's all i'll ever be
C F
Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
G F C
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moonlit summer nights.
F
And though I never knew the magic, of making it with you
G F C
I'm getting along with my country songs, doing what I swore to do
G F C
And I was always just one step behind you.