Chords for American Pie (Don McLean) Ukulele Cover Lesson with Chords/Lyrics

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Long, [Em] long time ago, [Am] I can still [C] remember how [Em] that music used [D] to make me smile.
_ And I knew if [Em] I had my chance, [Am] that I could [C] make those people dance and maybe they'd be happy for [D] a while.
But _ _ _ [Em] _
February [Am] _ made me [Em] shiver with every paper [Am] I delivered.
[C] _ [G] Bad news [Am] on the doorstep, [C] I couldn't take [D] one more step.
I can't remember [Em] if I cried when [Am] I read about [D] his widowed bride.
But something touched [Em] me deep inside the [C] day _ [D] the _ music _ died.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ So bye [C] _ bye [G] Miss [D] American Pie, [G] drove my [C] Chevy to the levee but the [D] levee was dry.
[G] Them [C] good old boys [Bm] were drinking [D] whiskey and rye, [Em] singing this'll be the day [A] that I die. _ _
This'll be the day [D] that I die.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
Did you [Am] buy the book of love?
[C]
You have [Am] faith in God above, [Em] _ if the [D] Bible tells you so.
_ _ _ [G] Now do you _ [D]
[Em] believe in rock and roll?
[Am] Can music save your [C] mortal soul?
[Em] Can you teach [A] me how to dance [D] real slow?
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] I know that you're [D] in love with him, [Em] cause I saw you [D] dancing in the gym.
[C] You both [G] kicked off [Am] your shoes, [C] then I picked those [D] rhythm and blues.
I was a lonely [Em] teenage punkin' buck [Am] with a pink [C] carnation and a pickup truck.
[G] But I [D] knew I [Em] was out of luck [C] the day _ the [D] _ _
[G] music _ [C] died.
_ _ [D] We were [G] singing [C] bye bye [G] Miss [D] American Pie, drove my [C] Chevy to the levee but the [D] levee was dry.
Them [C] good old boys [Bm] were drinking [D] whiskey and rye, [Em] singing this'll be the day [A] that I die.
_ _ [Em] This'll be the day that [D] I die.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Now for ten [Am] years we've been on our own.
[C] _
Moscow's fat [Am] on a rolling stone, [Em] but that's not how [D] it used to be. _
_ _ [G] When the [Bm] jester sang [Em] for the king and queen [Am] in a coop, he borrowed [C]
from James [Em] Dean and a voice _ [A]
came from [D] you and me. _ _
_ _ [Em] Oh and while the king [D]
was looking [Em] down, the jester [D] stole his thorny crown.
[C] The [G] courtroom [Am] was _ adjourned, [C] no verdict [D] was returned.
And while Lennon [Em] read on a book of marks, [Am] _ quartet [C] practiced in the park, [Bm] we sang [Em] dirties in the [C] dark.
_ _ [D] The _ music [G] _ [C] died. _ _
[D] We were [G] singing [C] bye bye [G] Miss [D] American Pie, [G] drove my Chevy [C] to the levee but the [D] levee was dry.
Them [C] good old boys were drinking [D] whiskey and [Em] rye, singing this'll be the day [A] that I die.
_ [Em] _ This'll be the day that [D] I die.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
Helter [Am] skelter and a summer [C] swelter, the birds flew [Am] off with a fallout [Em] shelter.
Eight miles [D] high and falling _ _ fast, _ _ it landed foul [Em] _
on the grass.
[Am] _ Players tried [C] for a forward [Em] pass, but the jester was [A] on the sidelines [D] and a cat. _ _ _
_ _ [Em] Now the halftime air [D]
was sweet perfume [Em] while the sergeants [D] played a marching [C] tune.
We all got [Am] up to dance, [C] but we never [D] got the chance.
[E] Cause when the players tried [Em] to take the [Am] field, the marching [C] band refused to yield.
[G] You recall [Em] what was [C] revealed today.
_ _ [D] The _ music [G] _ [C] died.
_ [G] _
[D] We started [G] singing bye [C] bye Miss [D] American Pie, [G] drove my Chevy [C] to the [G] levee but the [D] levee was dry.
[C] Them good old boys [G] were drinking [D] whiskey and rye, [Em] singing this'll be the day [A] that I die.
_ [Em] _ This'll be the day [D] that I die.
_ _ Oh [G]
and there we are [Am] all in one place, [C] a generation [Am] lost in [Em] space with no [D] time to start again.
_ _ So come on Jack be [Em] nimble, Jack be quick, [Am] _ pack that [C] sad on a candlestick, [Em] cause fire _ [A] is the devil's [D] only friend. _ _ _
_ _ [Em] Oh and as I [D] watched him on the [Em] stage, my hands were [D] clenched in fists of [C] rage.
No [G] angel [Am] born in hell [C] could break that [D] Satan's spell.
And as the flames climbed [Em] high into the night [Am] to light the [C] _
sacrificial [G] rye, I [D] saw Satan [Em] laughing with [C] delight.
This'll be the day _ [D] the _ music [G] _ _ [C] died. _
_ [D] Heard him [G] singing [C] bye bye Miss [D] American Pie, drove my [C] Chevy to the levee but the [D] levee was dry.
Them [C] good old boys were drinking [D] whiskey and [Em] rye, singing this'll be the day [A] that I die.
_ _ [Em] _ This'll be the day that [D] I die. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ I met a girl [G] who sang the blues, [Am] and I asked her for [C] some happy news, [Em] but she [F#m] just smiled and turned away.
_ _ _ [D] I went down [Em] to the sacred store, [Am] where I'd heard the [C] music years before, [Em] but the man there [C] said the music wouldn't [Bm] play.
_ _ _ [Em] _ And in the streets [Am] the children screamed, [Em] the lovers [Am] cried and the poets dreamed, but not a word was spoken.
_ [C] The church bells all [D] were broken, _ _ [C] and the three men I admire most, the Father, [F#]
Son, and the [D] Holy Ghost, _ they caught the last [Em] train for the coast.
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[C] _ _ _ The _ [D] music, _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
heard him singing _ bye [C] _
bye Miss [D] American Pie, [G] drove my Chevy [C] to the levee [G] but the [D] levee was dry.
[E] Them good [C] old boys were [G] drinking whiskey [D] and rye, [Em] singing this'll be the day that [A] I die.
_ _ [Em] This'll be the day that [D] I die. _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] Bye bye Miss [D] American Pie, [G] drove my [C] Chevy to the levee but the [D] levee was dry.
[A] Them [C] good old boys were [G] drinking [D] whiskey and rye, [C]
singing this'll be [D] the day that [G] I die.
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
Don't [A#] forget [B] to _ [C#] subscribe.
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