#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # 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.