[00:06.320]Oh, I can still remember
[00:08.630]When I bought my first guitar
[00:11.130]Remember walking from the shop
[00:13.880]To put it proudly in my car
[00:16.880]And my family listened fifty times
[00:19.320]To my two song repertoire
[00:22.820]
[00:23.760]I told my mom her only son
[00:26.070]Was gonna be a star
[00:28.760]Well, I bought all the Beatles records
[00:31.440]Sounded just like Paul
[00:33.700]I bought all the old Chuck Berrys
[00:36.570]78s and all
[00:37.760]
[00:39.080]And I sat by my record player
[00:41.770]Playing every note they played
[00:45.890]I watched them all on TV
[00:48.090]And copied every move they made
[00:50.480]Aw, rock and roll, I gave you all
[00:53.480]The best years of my life
[00:55.930]All the dreamy sunny Sundays
[00:58.120]All the moonlit summer nights
[01:00.680]I was so busy in the backroom
[01:02.930]Writing love songs to you
[01:05.180]While you were changing your direction
[01:08.680]And you never even knew
[01:12.550]That I was always just one step behind you
[01:18.070]Well, '66 seemed like the year
[01:20.900]I was really going somewhere
[01:23.020]I was living in San Francisco
[01:25.910]Wearing flowers in my hair
[01:27.850]Singing songs of kindness
[01:30.850]So the world would understand
[01:35.670]The guys and me thought we were more
[01:38.290]Than just another band
[01:40.060]Aw, rock and roll, I gave you all
[01:43.060]The best years of my life
[01:45.370]All the crazy, lazy, young days
[01:48.060]All the magic moon at nights
[01:50.680]I was so busy on the road
[01:53.320]Singing love songs to you
[01:55.450]While you were changing your direction
[01:57.320]
[01:58.230]And you never even knew
[02:00.670]That I was always just one step behind you
[02:07.850]Well, '71, I was all alone
[02:10.310]When I met Sarah Jan
[02:12.430]I was trying to go it solo
[02:14.930]With someone elses band
[02:16.060]And she came up to me softly
[02:20.680]And she took me by the hand
[02:24.500]She listened to my problems
[02:26.840]And she seemed to understand
[02:29.310]And she followed me to London
[02:31.920]To a hundred hotel rooms
[02:34.110]Through a hundred record companies
[02:36.980]Who didn't like my tunes
[02:38.550]She followed me back to Tennessee
[02:42.110]Where she finally made me see
[02:45.980]I'm just a plain old country boy
[02:49.180]That's all I'll ever be
[02:50.930]Aw, rock and roll, I gave you
[02:53.550]All the best years of my life
[02:56.120]All the dreamy, sunny Sundays
[02:58.420]All the moonlit summer nights
[03:01.490]And though I never knew
[03:03.810]The magic of making it with you
[03:06.610]I'm getting along with my country songs
[03:08.550]Doing what I was born to do
[03:11.050]But I always was just one step behind you
[03:17.780]Aw, rock and roll, I gave you
[03:20.840]All the best years of my life
[03:23.150]All the dreamy sunny Sundays,
[03:25.340]all the moon-lit summer nights,