Chords with lyrics
I have just tidied up his version and corrected some lyrics.
WayneXG95 had the right chords but it needs a capo on the first fret.
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Rock & Roll (I gave you all the best years of my life)
Kevin Johnson
Intro 
C majorC Strummed/Picked Slowly (Capo 1)
Verse 1
G7G7
I can still remember when I brought my first guitar
G7G7
Remember just how good the feeling was put it proudly in my car
DmDm
And my family listened fifty times to my two song repertoire
C majorC
And I told my mom her only son was gonna be a star
G+G
Brought all the Beatles records sounded just like Paul
G7G7
Brought all the old Chuck Berry's seventy eights and all
DmDm
And I sat by my record player playing every note they played
C majorC
And I watched them all on TV making every move they made
Chorus
FF
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
C majorC
All the dreamy sunny sundays all the moonlit summer nights
FF
I was so busy in the backroom writing love songs to you
C majorC
While you were changing your direction and you never even knew
G7G7
That I was always just one step behind you
Verse 2
G7G7
'66 seemed like the year I was really going somewhere
G7G7
We were living in San Francisco with flowers in our hair
DmDm
Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand
G7G7
That the guy's and me were something more than just another band
G+G
And then '69 in LA came around so soon
G+G
We were really making head way writing lots of tunes
DmDm
And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played
C majorC
And the crowds cried out for us well we thought we had it made
Chorus 2
FF
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
C majorC
All the crazey lazy young days all the magic moonlit nights
FF
I was so busy on the road singing love songs to you
C majorC
While you were changing your direction and you never even knew
G7G7
That I was always just one step behind you
Do Do Do etc (C majorC x2)
Verse 3
G7G7
'71 in Soho when I saw Suzanne
G7G7
I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band
DmDm
And she came up to me later and took her by the hand
G7G7
And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand
G+G
And she followed me through London through a hundred hotel rooms
G+G
Through a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes
DmDm
And she followed me when finally I sold my old guitar
C majorC
And she tried to help me understand I'd never be a star
Chorus 3
FF
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
C majorC
All the dreamy sunny sundays all the moonlit summer nights
FF
And though I never knew the magic of making it with you
C majorC
I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew
C majorC
And I will always be one step behind you
FF
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
C majorC
Singing out my love songs on a bright lit magic night
FF
And though I never knew the magic of making it with you
C majorC
I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew
FF
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
C majorC
All the dreamy sunny sundays all the moonlit summer nights
FF
I was so busy in the backroom writing love songs for you
C majorC
While you were changing your direction and you never even knew
Rep...Fade
