[00:13.38]Rock And Roll -Jimmy Rushing
[00:15.18]I can still remember
[00:16.02]When I bought my first guitar
[00:18.57]Remember just how good the feeling
[00:19.65]To put it proudly in my car
[00:22.68]And my family listened fifty times
[00:24.33]To my two song repertoire
[00:25.05]I told my mom
[00:25.41]Her only son was gonna be a star
[00:27.45]Bought all the Beatles records
[00:28.89]I sounded just like Paul
[00:29.55]I bought all the old Chuck Berry's -78's and all
[00:31.14]I sat by my record player
[00:31.83]Playing every note they played
[00:32.85]I watched them all on TV
[00:33.39]Making every move they made
[00:34.02]Rock and roll, I gave you all
[00:34.71]The best years of my life
[00:35.34]All the dreamy sunny Sundays
[00:36.09]All the moonlit summer nights
[00:36.78]I was so busy in the backroom
[00:37.59]Writing love songs to you
[00:38.31]While you were changing your direction
[00:39.33]And you never even knew
[00:44.64]That I was always just one step behind you
[00:48.66]Sixty-six seemed like the year
[00:58.98]I was really going somewhere
[01:07.26]We were living in San Francisco
[01:08.34]With flowers in our hair
[01:08.91]Singing songs of kindness
[01:09.69]So the world would understand
[01:11.22]To the guys and me you were something more
[01:13.53]Than just another band
[01:14.25]And then sixty-nine in LA
[01:15.36]Came around so soon
[01:16.08]We were really making headway
[01:17.40]And writing lots of tunes
[01:18.42]And we must have played
[01:19.05]The wildest stuff that we had ever played
[01:47.37]And the way the crowds cried out for us
[01:49.08]We thought we had it made
[01:51.60]Rock and roll, I gave you all
[01:52.74]The best years of my life
[01:53.31]All the crazy, lazy, young days
[01:56.55]All the magic moon at night
[01:57.57]I was so busy on the road
[01:59.25]Singing love songs to you
[02:18.21]While you were changing your direction
[02:22.02]And you never even knew
[02:27.24]That I was always just one step behind you
[02:28.74]Seventy-one and so alone
[02:29.40]When I met Susanne
[02:30.15]I was trying to go it solo
[02:32.19]With someone else's band
[02:33.03]She came up to me later
[02:33.66]And I took her by the hand
[02:36.21]And I told her all my troubles
[02:37.53]And she seemed to understand
[02:38.52]And she followed me to London
[02:40.95]Through a hundred hotel rooms
[02:41.70]Through a hundred record companies
[02:42.93]Who didn't like my tunes
[02:43.50]She followed me when finally
[02:44.34]I sold my old guitar
[02:45.00]She tried to help me
[02:45.51]Understand I'd never be a star
[02:46.35]Rock and roll, I gave you
[02:50.82]All the best years of my life
[02:51.69]All the dreamy, sunny Sundays
[02:53.07]All the moonlit summer nights
[02:55.65]And though I never knew
[02:56.07]The magic of making it with you
[02:56.76]That I thank the Lord for giving me
[02:58.86]The little bit I knew
[03:09.36]And I was always just one step behind you