Chords for Don McLean - American Pie (Live in Austin)

We've got a brand new song here.
I wrote it just a day or so ago.
I hope I can remember the words.
If I forget a few of them, I hope you forgive me.
I hope you won't make me do it over.
[B] _ _ [G] _
It goes like this.
A [D] long, [Em] long time ago, _ [C] I can still remember [G] how that music used to make [D] me smile.
_ [D] I knew [G] if I had my [C] chance, I could make those people dance.
[G] Maybe [C] they'd be happy for a [D] while.
[Em] But February [Am] made me [Em] shiver with [C] every paper I'd deliver.
Bad [C] news on the doorstep.
I couldn't take [D] one more step.
[G] I can't [G] remember if I cried [C] when I read about his widowed bride.
[Ab] _ [G] [D] Something [G] touched me deep inside the day.
[C] The [D] music [C] died.
_ _ [G] _
Sing it with me.
_ [C] So bye-bye, [G] Miss [D] American Pie.
[G] Drove my Chevy [C] to the levee, but [D] the levee was dry.
[G] Them good old [C] boys are drinking [G] whiskey [D] and rye.
[Em] Singing, this'll be the day [A] that I die.
Good laugh.
[Em] This'll be the day that I [D] die.
_ _ _ [G] [Am] Did you write the book of love?
Do you have faith in God above?
[Em] If the Bible [D] tells you so.
Now do [G] you [D] believe in [Em] rock and roll?
Can [Am] music save your mortal soul?
[Em] And can you teach [A] me how to dance [D] real slow?
[Em] Well, I know that [D] you're in love with [Em] him.
Cause I [D] saw you dancing in a gym.
[C] You both kicked [G] off your [Am] shoes.
[C] _
[D] Elgin rhythm and blues.
[G] Lonely [D] teenage [Em] rock and ball.
[Am] With a pink carnation [C] and a pick-up truck.
[G] But I [D] knew I was [Em] out of luck.
The [C] day the [D] music [G] [C] died.
Here we [G] go!
[D] Started singing, [G] bye [C]-bye, [G] Miss American [D] Pie.
[G] Drove my Chevy [C] to the levee, [G] but the levee [D] was dry.
[G] Good [C] old boys are [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.
_ _ [G] Now for ten years [Am] we've been on our own.
[C] Moss [Am] grows, span on a rolling stone.
[Em] That's not [D] how it used to be.
_ [G] Why when the jester sang [Em] for the king and queen.
[Am] In a coat he borrowed [C] from James Dean.
[Em] And a voice [A] that came from [D] you and me.
_ [G] Oh, and while the king [D] was looking [Em] down.
On the jester stole [D] his thorny crown.
[C] Lord [G] Caroon [Am] was adjourned.
[C] No medic was [D] returned.
[G] And while I [D] read [Em] a book on Marx.
[Am] A quartet practiced in the park.
[G] We [D] sang [Em] Gersh's In the Dark.
[C] The day [D] the music [G] [C] died.
[G] [D] We were singing, [G] bye [C]-bye, [G] Miss [D] American Pie.
[G] Drove my Chevy [C] to the [G] levee, but the [D] levee was dry.
[G] Good [C] old boys [G] are 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.
_ _ [G] A skelter, [Am] skelter in the summer swelter.
[C] The birds flew [Am] off with the fallout shelter.
[Em] Eight miles [D] high and put it fair.
_ [G] [D] To land your [Em] fowl on the grass.
[Am] Players [C] tried for a forest.
[Em] With a jester [A] on the sidelines [D] in a cast.
[Bm] _ [Em] Now the halftime air [D] was sweet perfume.
[G] While the sergeants [D] played their marching tune.
[C] [Em] We all [Am] got up to [C] dance.
We never got [D] the chance.
[G] The players [D] trying [G] to take the field.
[Am] The marching band [C] refused to yield.
[G] Do [D] you recall [Em] what was revealed [C] the day [D] the music [G] died?
[C] _ [G] [D] We were [G] singing, bye [C]-bye, [G] Miss [D] American Pie.
[G] Drove my Chevy [C] to the [G] levee, but the [D] levee was dry.
[G] Good [C] old boys [G] are 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.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am]
A [C] [Am] generation lost in space.
[Em] With no time left [D] to start again.
[G] So come on, Jack, [Em] be nimble.
Jack, be queer.
[Am] Jack Flash sat on his [Em] candlestick.
[A] Fire is the devil's only [D] friend.
_ [Em] Oh, and as I [D] watched him on the [Em] stage.
My hands [D] were clenched in fists of [C] rage.
[Em] No [Am] angel born in hell [C] could break that [D] Satan's spell.
[G] And the [D] flames climbed [Em] high into the [Am] night.
The light, the [C] sacrificial [Am] rite.
I [G] saw [D] Satan [Em] laughing with delight.
[C] The day [D] the music [G] [C] died.
[G] [D] We were singing, [G] bye [C]-bye, [G] Miss [D] American Pie.
[G] Drove my Chevy [C] to the levee, [D] but the levee was dry.
[G] Them good [C] old boys are [D] drinking whiskey and rye.
[Em] Singing, this'll be the day that [A] I die.
[Em] This'll be the day that [D] I die.
_ _ [G] Well, I met a [D] girl who [G] sang the blues.
And I asked her for some [C] happy [G] news.
But she just smiled and [D] turned away. _
[G] And I went [D] down to [G] the sacred store.
Where [C] I'd heard the [G] music [C] years before.
But [G] the man there said [C] the music wouldn't [D] play. _
_ _ [Em] In the streets, [C] the children screamed.
[G] The lovers cried and [C] the poets dreamed.
But not a [C] word was spoken.
The church bells all [D] were broken.
_ [G] And the three [D] men I [G] admire most.
[Em] The Father, Son, and the [C] Holy Ghost.
[G] They caught the [D] last train [G] for the coast.
The [C] day [D] the music [G] died.
[Am] _ [D] _ _
[G] They were singing, bye [C]-bye, Miss [G] [D] American Pie.
[G] Drove my Chevy [C] to the levee, [G] but the [D] levee was dry.
[G] Them good old [C] boys are [G] drinking [D] whiskey and rye.
[Em] Singing, this'll be the day that I die.
[A] _
_ _ _ [Em] This'll be the day that [D] I die.
_ _ Good Lord, everybody, they were singing, [G] bye-bye, [C] _ [G] Miss American [D] Pie.
[G] Drove my Chevy to [C] the [G] levee, but the [D] levee was dry.
[G] Them good [C] old boys are [G] drinking whiskey [D] and rye.
[C] Singing, this'll be [D] the day that [G] I die.
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