Karaoké Rock and Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life) Kevin Johnson

I can still remember when I bought my first guitar

Remember just how good the feeling was

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

Seventy eight's and all

I sat by my record player

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 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

I never even knew

That I was always just one step behind you

Sixty six 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 LA 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

Doo doo loo loo

Doo doo loo loo

Seventy one and so alone when I saw 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

Told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand

And she followed me to 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

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

Singing out my love songs in a (blackery) flashing lights

No I never knew the magic of making it with you

That I thank the Lord for giving me the little bit I knew

Oh 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 I never even knew

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

All the dreamy sunny Sundays all the moonlit summer nights