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American Pie by Don Mclean

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American Pie

Don McLean
"American Pie"


    Performance Notes:
  Acoustic guitar, with open position chords.

  Chords
Chord diagramG+G   320033
Chord diagramD MajorD   xx0232
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7 022030
Chord diagramA minorAm  x02210
Chord diagramC majorC   x32010
Chord diagramE minorEm  022000
Chord diagramD7D7  xx0212
Chord diagramAm7Am7 x02010 or x02213
Chord diagramA7A7  x02020 or x02223
    Prologue  (Strum Freely / Slowly  usu. only the once per chord)
   Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramE minor 7Em7       Chord diagramA minorAm               Chord diagramC majorC
Chord diagramA augmentedA | long, long time ago | I can ...

 Chord diagramE minorEm                      Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramE minor 7Em7     (Chord diagramG+G)
| music used to make me smile |      And | I ...

 Chord diagramA minorAm       (Chord diagramG+G)        Chord diagramC majorC                 Chord diagramE minorEm               Chord diagramC majorC
| I could make those people dance and | ...

 Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramE minorEm             Chord diagramA minorAm             Chord diagramE minorEm                    Chord diagramA minorAm
| while   | But February made me shiver ...|

 Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramA minorAm           Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramD MajorD
| Bad news on the doorstep I | ...

                                    (Chord diagramC majorC)             (Chord diagramD7D7)
 Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramE minorEm   (Chord diagramG+G)     Chord diagramAm7Am7             Chord diagramD MajorD
| can't remember if I cried when I | ...


 Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramE minorEm                Chord diagramC majorC  (Chord diagramAm7Am7) Chord diagramD7D7      Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramG+G  (Chord diagramD7D7)
| something touched me deep in-...|        |
                                                           Del Segna al Coda
                    (Play from Segna till it says to go to the Coda)

    Chorus ( in a slightly faster tempo )
   (SEGNA)

   |*G    Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC
So |* bye-bye, Miss A_|_merican Pie ...

 Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramC majorC                Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramD MajorD  TO CODA
| levee was dry. Them |good ole boys were ...

  Chord diagramE minorEm                         Chord diagramA7A7       Chord diagramE minorEm                          Chord diagramD7D7
| this'll be the day that I | die    | This'll ...|
    Verses 1,2,3,4.

|Chord diagramG+G   |Chord diagramA minorAm  |Chord diagramC majorC    |Chord diagramA minorAm   |Chord diagramE minorEm    |Chord diagramD MajorD    |  %  |Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramD MajorD  |Chord diagramE minorEm   |Chord diagramAm7Am7   |Chord diagramC majorC   |Chord diagramE minorEm    |

|Chord diagramA7A7  |Chord diagramD MajorD   |  %  |Chord diagramE minorEm   |Chord diagramD MajorD     |Chord diagramE minorEm   |Chord diagramD MajorD    |Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G  |Chord diagramA7A7   |Chord diagramC majorC     |Chord diagramD7D7  |Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramD MajorD  |
                                                 _______
                                                | 1.2.3.
                                                       *|
|Chord diagramE minorEm  |Chord diagramA minorAm  |Chord diagramC majorC    |Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramD MajorD |Chord diagramE minorEm    |Chord diagramC majorC    |Chord diagramD7D7   |Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramC majorC  |Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramD7D7 *|
 ______
| 4.

|Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramD MajorD       |Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramC majorC   |Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramD MajorD   |Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramC majorC   |Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramD MajorD   |Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramC majorC   |Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramD MajorD   |
| He was singing | etc.

|Chord diagramE minorEm     |Chord diagramA7A7     |Chord diagramE minorEm     |Chord diagramD7D7     |

    For the 5th verse, play the prologue, adding the chords in (x) in and
substituting a chord for a previousey written one when you see   (Chord diagramC majorC)
                                                                 Chord diagramAm7Am7
(Ie: play a Chord diagramC majorC instaid of, not as well as, the Chord diagramAm7Am7)

Also remember to go back to the slow strumming for the 5th verse.

    Coda

 Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramD7D7           Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramC majorC     Chord diagramG+G
| This'll be the day that ...|
.

Written out by The Loan Arranger       [email protected]
20/11/96 (rev 11/97)

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