Guitar chords
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+G D MajorD E minor 7Em7
A augmentedA long, long ...,
A minorAm C majorC E minorEm D MajorD
I can still remember how that ...
G+G D MajorD E minor 7Em7
And I know if I ...
A minorAm C majorC E minorEm C majorC D MajorD
That I could make those people dance and ...
E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm
But February made me shiver, with ...
C majorC G+G A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
Bad news on the doorstep, I ...
G+G D MajorD E minorEm Am7Am7 D MajorD
I can't remember if I cried when I ...
G+G D MajorD E minorEm
Something touched me ...
C majorC D7D7 G+G C majorC G+G
The day the ...
*Chorus*
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
So bye, bye Miss ...
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
Drove my Chevy to the levy ...
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
And them good old boys were ...
E minorEm A7A7 E minorEm D7D7
Singin' this will be the day that I die, ...
*Verse*
G+G A minorAm
Did you write the boo...
C majorC A minorAm E minorEm D MajorD
And do you have faith in god ...?
G+G D MajorD E minorEm
Do you believe in ..
Am7* C majorC E minorEm A7A7 D MajorD
Can music save your mortal soul and can you ...?
E minorEm D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD
Well I know that you're in love with him 'cuz I ...
C majorC G+G A7A7 C majorC D7D7
You both kicked off your shoes, ...
G+G D MajorD E minorEm A minorAm C majorC
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck with ...
G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC D7D7 G+G C majorC G+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+G D MajorD E minorEm
I met a girl who sang ...
A minorAm C majorC E minorEm D MajorD
And I asked her for some happy news, ....
G+G D MajorD E minorEm
I went down to the ...
(G+G) (A minorAm) (G+G) (C majorC) (E minorEm)
A minorAm C majorC E minorEm C majorC
Where I'd heard the music years before, ...
D MajorD
wouldn't play
E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm
But in the streets the children screamed...
dreamed
C majorC G+G A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
But not a word was spoken, the church ...
(G+G)
G+G D MajorD E minorEm Am7Am7 C majorC D7D7
And the three men I admire most, the ...
G+G D MajorD E minorEm Am7Am7 D7D7 G+G
They caught the last train for the ...,
D7D7
And they ...
*Final Chorus*
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
So bye, bye ...
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
Drove my Chevy to the levy but ...
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
And them good old boys were ...
C majorC D7D7 G+G C majorC G+G
Singin' this will be the ....
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'American Pie2' by Don Mclean, a male folk artist from New York, USA. Don Mclean was born in 1945.
