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