Chords for Home Free - American Pie ft. Don McLean (Official Music Video)

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