American Pie - Don McLean
As requested on a.g.t., here is the complete CRD plus lyrics for the full
version of Don McLean's "American Pie". Should be a long file. Anyway, I
got the original chords from the sheet music and then sort of played with
'em until it sounds right; where I change em I'll put the published chords
in parentheses above. I've tried to place the chords as close to
where they should be strummed as possible. Also, at the end of a couple lines
that end in a D MajorD you may wish to embelish the strumming with a Dsus4. Happy
playing :)
Define chords:
Chord e a d g b e
----- - - - - - -
A7A7 x 0 2 0 2 0
A minorAm x 0 2 2 1 0
Am7Am7 x 0 2 0 1 0
Am7* x 0 2 2 1 3
C majorC x 3 2 0 1 0
D MajorD x x 0 2 3 2
Dsus4Dsus4 x x 0 2 3 3
D7D7 x x 0 2 1 2
E minorEm 0 2 2 0 0 0
E minor 7Em7 0 2 0 0 0 0
G+G 3 2 0 0 0 3
American Pie - Don McLean
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G+GD MajorDE minor 7Em7A augmentedA long, long ...,
A minorAmC majorCE minorEmD MajorD
I can still remember how that ...
G+GD MajorDE minor 7Em7
And I know if I ...
A minorAmC majorCE minorEmC majorCD MajorD
That I could make those people dance and ...
E minorEmA minorAmE minorEmA minorAm
But February made me shiver, with ...
C majorCG+GA minorAmC majorCD MajorD
Bad news on the doorstep, I ...
G+GD MajorDE minorEmAm7Am7D MajorD
I can't remember if I cried when I ...
G+GD MajorDE minorEm
Something touched me ...
C majorCD7D7G+GC majorCG+G
The day the ...
*Chorus*
G+GC majorCG+GD MajorD
So bye, bye Miss ...
G+GC majorCG+GD MajorD
Drove my Chevy to the levy ...
G+GC majorCG+GD MajorD
And them good old boys were ...
E minorEmA7A7E minorEmD7D7
Singin' this will be the day that I die, ...
*Verse*
G+GA minorAm
Did you write the boo...
C majorCA minorAmE minorEmD MajorD
And do you have faith in god ...?
G+GD MajorDE minorEm
Do you believe in ..
Am7* C majorCE minorEmA7A7D MajorD
Can music save your mortal soul and can you ...?
E minorEmD MajorDE minorEmD MajorD
Well I know that you're in love with him 'cuz I ...
C majorCG+GA7A7C majorCD7D7
You both kicked off your shoes, ...
G+GD MajorDE minorEmA minorAmC majorC
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck with ...
G+GD MajorDE minorEmC majorCD7D7G+GC majorCG+G
But I knew I was out of luck the day the ....
*Chorus*
*Other verses*
Now for ten years we've been on ....
Helter skelter in a summer ....
And there we were all in one ....
*Last verse*
G+GD MajorDE minorEm
I met a girl who sang ...
A minorAmC majorCE minorEmD MajorD
And I asked her for some happy news, ....
G+GD MajorDE minorEm
I went down to the ...
(G+G) (A minorAm) (G+G) (C majorC) (E minorEm)
A minorAmC majorCE minorEmC majorC
Where I'd heard the music years before, ...
D MajorD
wouldn't play
E minorEmA minorAmE minorEmA minorAm
But in the streets the children screamed...
dreamed
C majorCG+GA minorAmC majorCD MajorD
But not a word was spoken, the church ...
(G+G)
G+GD MajorDE minorEmAm7Am7C majorCD7D7
And the three men I admire most, the ...
G+GD MajorDE minorEmAm7Am7D7D7G+G
They caught the last train for the ...,
D7D7
And they ...
*Final Chorus*
G+GC majorCG+GD MajorD
So bye, bye ...
G+GC majorCG+GD MajorD
Drove my Chevy to the levy but ...
G+GC majorCG+GD MajorD
And them good old boys were ...
C majorCD7D7G+GC majorCG+G
Singin' this will be the ....
D MajorD you may wish to embelish the strumming with a Dsus4. Happy playing :) Define chords: Chord e a d g b e ----- - - - - - -
A7A7 x 0 2 0 2 0
A minorAm x 0 2 2 1 0
Am7Am7 x 0 2 0 1 0 Am7* x 0 2 2 1 3
C majorC x 3 2 0 1 0
Dsus4Dsus4 x x 0 2 3 3
D7D7 x x 0 2 1 2
E minorEm 0 2 2 0 0 0
E minor 7Em7 0 2 0 0 0 0
G+G 3 2 0 0 0 3
A augmentedA long, long ...,
