American Pie

A(G)long (D) long (e7) time ago (a) I can still re(C)member
how that (e) music used to make me (D) smile
And (G) I knew (D) if I had (e7) my chance, that (a) I could make those (C) people dance
and (e) maybe they'd be (C) happy for a (D) while?

But February (a) made me shiver (e) with every paper
(a) I'd deliver
(C) Bad news (G-B) on the (a) doorstep, I (C) couldn't take one (D) more step
I (G) can't re(D)member if I (e)cried , when I (a7) read about his (D)widowed bride
But (G) something (D) touched me deep inside
The (C) Day the (D7) Music (G) died....(C-G)

So
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(G)Bye(C)bye Miss A(G)merican (D)Pie
Drove my (G)chevy to the(C)levy,but the(G)levy was(D)dry
And them (G) good old(C)boys drinking (G)whiskey and (D)rye
Singin' (e) this could be the day that I (A7)die
(e)this could be the day that I(D7) die...

(G) Did you write the(a)book of love and do (C)you have faith in (a) God above
(e) if the Bible (D)tells you so?
Do (G) you be(D)lieve in (e) Rock'n Roll?
Can (a7) music save your (C) mortal soul?
And (e)can you teach me (A7) how to dance in real?

Well I (e)know that you're in (D) love with him'
cause I (e) saw you dancing (D)in the gym...
You (C) both (G-B) kicked off your (A7) shoes
Man I (C)dig those rythmy (D7) blues
I was a (G) lonely teenage (e) broncing buck
With a (a)pink carnation and a (C)pickup truck
Buy (G) I knew (D) I was (e) out of luck
The (C) Day the (D7) Music (G)died (C)

I started singing :
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Now for ten years we've been on our own
and the moss grows fat on a rollin' stone
But that's noe how it used to be
When the jester sang for the King and Queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me

Oh, and while the King was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned
And while Lennon read a book of Marx
The court kept practise in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The Day, the Music died...

We were singing :
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Helter Skelter in a summer swelter,
The Byrds flew off with a fallout shelter
Eight miles high and falling fast
It landed foul on the grass
The players tried for a forward pass
But the jester's on the sidelines...

Now the half-time airwas sweet perfume
while the sargeants played a marching
We all got up to dance, but we never got the chance
cause the players tried to take the field
The marching band refused to yell
Do you recall what was reveiled
the Day the Music died?

We started singing:
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Oh, there we were all in one place
A generation lost in space
With no time to start again
So come on, Jack, be nimble Jack be quick
Jack Flash say on a candlestick
cause fire is the Devil's thing

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rag
No angel born in hell could break that Satan's spell
And as the flames climbed high in to the night
To light the sacrifical rit
I saw Satan laughing with delight
the Day the Music died

He was singing:
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I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down the sacred store
Where I'd heard the misic years before
But the man said the music was dead

And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried and the poets dreamt
But not a word was spoken
The Church bells all were broken
And three men I admire most
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The Day the Music died

And they were singing:
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