CAPO: 4th Fret INTRO: Cadd9 C Cadd9 C I watched him take the stage F C Like a giant there before me F Csus4 A poet of the people standing tall C Flood lights beaming red F C On steel strings and sweat F G The finest tunes that ever echoed off those walls C And the power of his voice F C All rage, fire and thunder F C F G I knew that I had changed and I'd never be the same C Now every time since then F C When I hear his voice again F G C I get carried back to that day CHORUS: G F C 'Cause it was rock 'n roll to me G F C He might as well have been the King Am Now I could walk a thousand miles G C And it would be like I stood still Dm7 F Spend my whole life trying Dm7 F C Cadd9 And I'd never fill those shoes I got my first guitar F C When I was twelve years old F Csus4 It was a fifteen dollar flea market prize C Something in me burned F C From my fingers through my veins F G And the fullest moon lit the darkest skies C Now I'm just one of many F C Setting out along this path F C Over dirt roads that he paved F G And new roads that he made C Searching for a song F C With his legend shining on F G C Like the Queensport Light glowing in the bay CHORUS: G F C It was rock 'n roll to me G F C He might as well have been the King Am Now I could walk a thousand miles G C And it would be like I stood still Dm7 F Spend my whole life trying Dm7 F C And I'd never fill those shoes INSTRUMENTAL: C F C F Dm7 C F C F G C CHORUS: G F C It was rock 'n roll to me G F C He might as well have been the King Am Now I could walk a thousand miles G C And it would be like I stood still Dm7 F Spend my whole life trying Dm7 F C And I'd never fill those shoes Dm7 F C I'd never fill those shoes