(Anderson/Meyer)

Growing up it take a lotta time

First you learn the music then you learn the rhyme

Melody is what you need when you're down

Harmony the world goes 'round and 'round

Radio said rock 'n' roll is dead

To my room I panicked and fled

It wrecked my mind and filled me with fright

Elvis, Chuck 'n' Jerry got me through the long, long night

Gotta pull on my jeans and my dancing shoes

I'm going out and sing some rhythm 'n' blues

Rock 'n' roll is the name of the game

And when it takes me over things ain't the same

Lotsa times we played for free

We had a taste we had a need

Twelve bar blues in four bar time

Beautiful words that just fell in rhyme

Radio said rock 'n' roll is dead

They're going insane they must be out of their head

Radio said rock 'n' roll is dead

But I don't care what the radio said

You will hear the banshee sing

The day you lose that shuffle 'n' swing

You will hear the death bell toll

The day you lose that rock 'n' roll

Radio said rock 'n' roll is dead

To my room I panicked and fled

It wrecked my mind and filled me with fright

Elvis, Chuck 'n' Jerry got me through the long, long night

Radio said rock 'n' roll is dead

They're going insane they must be out of their head

Radio said rock 'n' roll is dead

But I don't care, he don't care, what the radio said