Cats

Capo: On 1.
^D I can still remember when I ^G bought my first gui ^A tar,
Remember ^D just how good the feeling to put it ^G proudly in my ^A car,
And my ^D7 fam'ly listened fifty times to my ^B7 two song reper ^Em toire.
I told my mom her only son was ^G gonna ^A be a ^D star.
^D Bought all the Beatles records, I ^G sounded just like ^A Paul,
I ^D bought all the old Chuck Berry's ^G 78's and ^A all
I ^D7 sat by my record player playing ^B7 ev'ry note they ^Em played.
I watched them all on TV making ^G ev'ry ^A move they ^D made.
^D Rock and roll, I gave you all the ^G best years of my life
All the ^A dreamy sunny Sundays, all the ^G moonlit summer ^D nights.
I was so busy in the backroom writing ^G love songs to you
While you were ^A changing your direction and ^G never even ^D knew
That I was ^A always just ^G one step be ^D hind you.
^D '66 seemed like the year I was ^G really going ^A somewhere;
We were ^D living in San Francisco with ^G flowers in our ^A hair,
^D7 Singing songs of kindness so the ^B7 world would under ^Em stand,
To the guys and me you were something more than ^G just another ^A band.
And then ^D sixty-nine in L. A. ^G came around so ^A soon,
We were ^D really making headway and ^G writing lots of ^A tunes,
And we ^D7 must have played the wildest stuff that ^B7 we had ever ^Em played,
And the way the crowds cried out for us, we ^G thought we ^A had it ^D made.
^D Rock and roll, I gave you all the ^G best years of my life
All the ^A crazy, lazy, young days, all the ^G magic moon at ^D night.
I was so busy on the road singing ^G love songs to you,
While you were ^A changing your direction and ^G never even ^D knew
That I was ^A always just ^G one step be ^D hind you.
^D Seventy-one and so alone ^G when I met Su ^A sanne,
I was ^D trying to go it solo with ^G someone else's ^A band.
She ^D7 came up to me later and I ^B7 took her by the ^Em hand,
And I told her all my troubles and she ^G seemed to under ^A stand.
And she ^D followed me through London, through a ^G hundred hotel ^A rooms,
Through a ^D hundred record companies who ^G didn't like my ^A tunes;
She ^D7 followed me when finally I ^B7 sold my old gui ^Em tar,
She tried to help me understand I'd ^G never ^A be a ^D star.
^D Rock and roll, I gave you all the ^G best years of my life
All the ^A dreamy sunny Sundays, all the ^G moonlit summer ^D nights.
And though I never knew the magic, of ^G making it with you
That I ^A thank the lord for giving me the ^G little bit I ^D knew
And I was ^A always just ^G one step be ^D hind you.