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 aD 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 -------------------------
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.