Rock N Roll (i Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) chords by Terry Jacks

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner

SONG:  ROCK `N` ROLL (I GAVE YOU THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE)
ARTIST: TERRY JACKS
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL: GUITARZAN7@HOTMAIL.COM


      ROCK `N` ROLL (I GAVE YOU THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE)
               TERRY JACKS


INTRO:
D D

VERSE: (Singls Strums for the 1st Verse)
D               G         A
I can still remember when I bought my first guitar
      D
I remember just how good the feeling was
    G       A
Put it proudly in my car
    D          Bm
And I played my friends a thousand times
  G       D
My two song repertoire
    G        A       A    D
And I told my mom her oldest son was gonna be star

VERSE:
D
I bought all the Beatles records
    G         A
And I tried to sound like Paul
  D                  G    A
I bought all the old Buddy Holly’s, the 78s and all
    D        Bm       G        D
And I sat by my record player playing every song they played
    G         A          D
And I watched them all on TV every move they made


CHORUS:
 D                G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
   A
The dreamy sunny Sundays
     D
All the magic moonlit nights

     D
I was so busy in the backroom
     G
Writing love songs to you
         A
While you were changing your direction
G       D
I never even knew
      A         D
That I was always one step behind you


VERSE:
 D               G         A
‘66 seemed like the year I was really going somewhere
     D              G       A
We were living in San Francisco with flowers in our hair
 D        Bm       G         D
Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand
     G        A
That the guys and me were something more
 A
Than just another band


VERSE:
   D         G       A
And ‘69 in LA well it came around so slow
       D             G       A
But we were really making headway and writin’ lots of tunes
    D          Bm      G       D
And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played
      G           A                 D
`Cause the way the crowds yelled out for more we thought we had it made


CHORUS:
 D                G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
 A            D
Playing my guitar under bright and flashing lights
     D            G
I was so busy on the road singing love songs to you
         A           G       D
While you were changing your direction I never even knew
      A         D
That I was always one step behind you.

E -3p2-
B -----
G -----
D -----
A -----
E -----


VERSE:
 D     G         A
‘71 in Soho is when I met Suzanne
    D             G       A
I was trying to go it solo with someone else`s band
     D       Bm       G        D
And she came up to me later on and I took her by the hand
    G        A
And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand


VERSE:
     D                G       A
And she followed me to London through a hundred hotel rooms
      D               G       A
Through a hundred record companies that didn’t like my tunes
     D        Bm    G       D
And she followed me `til finally I sold my old guitar
     G        A               D
And she tried to help me understand that I`d never be a star


CHORUS:
 D                G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
   A
The dreamy sunny Sundays
     D
All the magic moonlit nights

        D
And though I’d never had the chance
  G
Of making it with you
  A              G        D
I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew
      A          D
And I will always be one step behind you


OUTRO:
 D                G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
 A
Singing out my love songs... - FADE OUT -