My First Love (Was Rock and Roll)

from Stompin' Grounds by Bill Carter

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MY FIRST LOVE WAS ROCK AND ROLL

love is a gift everyone is born with find it in a soft touch, lose it with a fist
everybody needs it, the young and old, my first love was rock and roll

in school they only taught facts and history, all i ever wanted was a rock
and roll degree
girls drove me wild, I was too young, and so, my first love was rock and roll

all the guys with money and automobiles, spending their time shining up
chrome wheels
trying to impress girls with what they drove, when any car was cool if it had
a radio

i made to every dance if i had to hitchhike, couldn't tie me down on a saturday
night outa town bands always thrilled my soul, my first love was rock and roll

a song could make me cry, a song could make me scream, guitar made me
crazy, music made me dream, saving all my lunch money just as fast as I
can, get me a guitar, start me a band

rockin' in the basement all day long, driving my folks crazy, only knew one
song, old man said, its gettin' outa control, my first love was rock and roll

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from Stompin' Grounds, released January 1, 1985

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"Bill Carter has an audacious knack for a roadhouse hook and a wicked tongue for lyrics, making music that is at once powerful, sly, intelligent and rocking. Carter is one of the most successful, if not the best singer-songwriter in Austin." Margaret Moser - Austin Chronicle ... more

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