Rock and Roll(2021 Remastered Version) - Jimmy Rushing

[03:11.0]I can still remember
[03:11.0] When I bought my first guitar
[03:11.0] Remember just how good the feeling
[03:11.0] To put it proudly in my car
[03:11.0] And my family listened fifty times
[03:11.0] To my two song repertoire
[03:11.0] I told my mom
[03:11.0] Her only son was gonna be a star
[03:11.0] Bought all the Beatles records
[03:11.0] I sounded just like Paul
[03:11.0] I bought all the old Chuck Berry's - 78's and all
[03:11.0] I sat by my record player
[03:11.0] Playing every note they played
[03:11.0] I watched them all on TV
[03:11.0] Making every move they made
[03:11.0]
[03:11.0] Rock and roll, I gave you all
[03:11.0] The best years of my life
[03:11.0] All the dreamy sunny Sundays
[03:11.0] All the moonlit summer nights
[03:11.0] I was so busy in the backroom
[03:11.0] Writing love songs to you
[03:11.0] While you were changing your direction
[03:11.0] And you never even knew
[03:11.0] That I was always just one step behind you
[03:11.0]
[03:11.0] Sixty-six seemed like the year
[03:11.0] I was really going somewhere
[03:11.0] We were living in San Francisco
[03:11.0] With flowers in our hair
[03:11.0] Singing songs of kindness
[03:11.0] So the world would understand
[03:11.0] To the guys and me you were something more
[03:11.0] Than just another band
[03:11.0]
[03:11.0] And then sixty-nine in LA
[03:11.0] Came around so soon
[03:11.0] We were really making headway
[03:11.0] And writing lots of tunes
[03:11.0] And we must have played
[03:11.0] The wildest stuff that we had ever played
[03:11.0] And the way the crowds cried out for us
[03:11.0] We thought we had it made
[03:11.0]
[03:11.0] Rock and roll, I gave you all
[03:11.0] The best years of my life
[03:11.0] All the crazy, lazy, young days
[03:11.0] All the magic moon at night
[03:11.0] I was so busy on the road
[03:11.0] Singing love songs to you
[03:11.0] While you were changing your direction
[03:11.0] And you never even knew
[03:11.0] That I was always just one step behind you
[03:11.0]
[03:11.0] Seventy-one and so alone
[03:11.0] When I met Susanne
[03:11.0] I was trying to go it solo
[03:11.0] With someone else's band
[03:11.0] She came up to me later
[03:11.0] And I took her by the hand
[03:11.0] And I told her all my troubles
[03:11.0] And she seemed to understand
[03:11.0]
[03:11.0] And she followed me to London
[03:11.0] Through a hundred hotel rooms
[03:11.0] Through a hundred record companies
[03:11.0] Who didn't like my tunes
[03:11.0] She followed me when finally
[03:11.0] I sold my old guitar
[03:11.0] She tried to help me
[03:11.0] Understand I'd never be a star
[03:11.0]
[03:11.0] Rock and roll, I gave you
[03:11.0] All the best years of my life
[03:11.0] All the dreamy, sunny Sundays
[03:11.0] All the moonlit summer nights
[03:11.0] And though I never knew
[03:11.0] The magic of making it with you
[03:11.0] That I thank the Lord for giving me
[03:11.0] The little bit I knew
[03:11.0] And I was always just one step behind you