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
her only son was gonna be a star
Well, I bought all the beatin' records,
and I sounded just like Paul
I bought all the old Chuck Perry's,
And I sat by my record player,
playin' every note they played
And I watched them all on TV,
and copied every move they made
Oh, rock and roll I give you are
the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays,
all the moonlit summer nights
I was so busy in the back room
writing love songs to you
While you were changing your direction
That I was always just one
Sixty -six seemed like the year
I was livin' in San Francisco,
wearin' flowers in my hair
Singin' songs of kindness
so the world would understand
The guys and me thought we
were more than just another band
Oh, rock and roll, I gave you
all the best years of my life
All the crazy, lazy young days,
all the magic moonlit nights
I was so busy on the road,
singing love songs to you
While you were changing your direction,
That I was always just one
Seventy -one was all alone
And she came up to me softly
She listened to my problems
and she seemed to un derstand
And she followed me to London,
To a hundred record companies
where she finally made me see
I'm just a plain old country boy,
Oh rock and roll, I give you
all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays,
all the moonlit summer nights
the magic of making it with you
I'm getting along with my
doing what I was going to do
But I was always just one
I give you all the best years of my life
All my dreamy sunny Sundays,
all the moonlit summer nights
Oh, no, I never knew that
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