Lyrics Rock'n'Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) - Terry Jacks
Oh,
I
can
still
remember
when
I
bought
my
first
guitar
Remember
walking
from
the
shop
to
put
it
proudly
in
my
car
And
my
family
listened
fifty
times
to
my
two
song
repertoire
I
told
my
Mom
her
only
son
was
gonna
be
a
star.
Well
I
bought
all
the
Beatles
records,
sounded
just
like
hall
Or
Buddy
Holly
or
Chuck
Berry′s,
seventy-eight
in
all
And
I
sat
by
my
record
player
playing
every
note
they
played
I
watched
them
all
on
TV,
copied
every
move
they
made.
Oh,
Rock'n′Roll
I
gave
you
all
the
best
years
of
my
life
All
the
teeny
sunny
Sundays,
all
the
moonless
summer
nights
I
was
so
busy
in
the
bed
room,
writing
love
songs
to
you
But
you
were
changing
your
direction
and
I
never
even
knew
That
I
was
always
just
one
step
behind
you.
Well,
sixty-six
seemed
like
the
year
I
was
really
goin'
somewhere
I
was
living
in
San
Francisco
wearing
flowers
in
my
hair
Singing
songs
of
kindness
so
the
world
would
understand
The
guys
and
me
thought
wer
were
more
than
just
another
band.
Oh,
Rock'n′Roll
I
gave
you
all
the
best
years
of
my
life
All
the
crazy,
lazy
young
days,
all
the
magic
moony
nights
I
was
so
busy
on
the
road,
singing
love
songs
to
you
But
you
were
changing
your
direction
and
you
never
even
knew
That
I
was
always
just
one
step
behind
you.
Seventy-one
I
was
all
alone
when
I
met
Sarah-Jane
I
was
trying
to
go
it
solo
with
someone
else′s
band
When
she
came
up
to
me
softly
and
she
took
me
by
the
hand
She
listened
to
my
problems
and
she
seemed
to
understand.
And
she
followed
me
to
London
to
a
hundred
hotel
rooms
To
a
hundred
record
companies
who
didn't
like
my
tunes
And
she
followed
me
back
to
Tennessee
where
she
findly
made
me
see
I′m
just
a
plain
old
Country
boy
and
that's
all
I′ll
ever
be.
Oh,
Rock'n′Roll
I
gave
you
all
the
best
years
of
my
life
All
the
teeny
sunny
Sundays,
all
the
moonless
summer
nights
Oh,
I
never
knew
the
magic
I'm
making
it
with
you
I'm
getting
along
with
a
Country
song
doing
what
I
wanna
do
When
I
was
always
just
one
step
behind
you.
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