From: sennet@ocf.berkeley.edu (Sennet Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab
Subject: crd/SIMP American Pie Corrected
Date: 23 Dec 1992 03:55:25 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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Keywords: crd SIMP req

Nobody has requested this recently, but it's been a weight on my soul since
I recently learned there were errors in the version I posted last summer 
that have gone uncorrected (until now).  
By the way, WHY DIDN'T ANYONE CORRECT THEM?!"
Anyway, I believe this one is better.  
(you can print this on two pages if you cut one chous and a chord chart.)
.       AMERICAN PIE        (Don Mclean)      (SIMPed  by Sennet)
.  G     D   Em      
A long, long time ago__   
Am             C              Em                     D
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.__
.   G         D     Em             Am                 C  
And I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people dance 
.   Em               C           D
and maybe they'd by happy for a while.
Em            Am             Em              Am            
But February made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver.  
.C       G       Am           C                 D         
Bad news on the doorstep.  I couldn't take one more step  
.  G       D        Em             Am7            D
I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride,
G           D         Em              C       D7       G   C  G
Something touched me deep inside the day_ the music  died._____ 
.
Chorus:
.       G    C         G       D           G             C            
.   So bye-bye, Miss American Pie.Drove my Chevy to the levee but the 
.    G         D         G        C                  G          D     
.   levee was dry, them good ole boys were drinkin' whiskey and Rye, singing
.   Em                        A7      Em                         D7
.   this'll be the day that I die,    This'll be the day that I die.__
verse:
G                 Am,                 C                 Am      
Did you write the book of love and do you have faith in God above?__ 
Em                D                     G      D       Em                 
.   If the Bible tells you so__  Now do you believe in rock and roll?  
.   Am              C               Em                 A7            D7
Can music save your mortal soul? and  can you teach me how to dance_ real 
slow?
.       Em                 D                      Em              D          
Well I know that you're in love with him 'cause I saw you dancing in the gym,
.    C        G          A7            C                    D7     
You both kicked off your shoes,  Man I dig those rhythm and blues!
.        G      D        Em                   Am                  C
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck, with a pink carnation and a pick-up 
truck.
.   G      D     Em               C        D7     G  C  G 
But I knew I was out of luck the day, the music died.___ 
G           D7
I started singing....     (chorus)
.
G                             Am,            C                   Am      
Now for ten years, we've been on our own and moss grows fat on a rolling 
stone,
Em                     D                          G     D            Em  
But that's not how it used to be-Cause when the jester sang for the King & 
Queen
.    Am                C                    Em          A7       D7
in a coat he borrowed from James Dean and a voice that came from you and 
me__
.       Em                 D                   Em               D  
Oh and while the king was looking down    the jester stole his thorny crown
_    C          G     A7         C            D7     
the court room was adjourned no verdict was returned.
.          G      D     Em                      Am              C
And while Lennon read a book of Marx      the quartet practiced in the park 
G            D     Em              C            D7      G  C  G 
and we sang dirges in the dark the day__    the music  died__ 
G         D7
We were  singin'      (chorus) 
.
Chord chart:
string: E A D G B E           E A D G B E           E A D G B E
A       0 0 2 2 2 0    Am7    0 0 2 0 1 0   D7      x x 0 2 1 2
Am      0 0 2 2 1 0    C      x 3 2 0 1 0   Em      0 2 2 0 0 0
A7      0 0 2 0 2 0    D      x x 0 2 3 2   G       3 2 0 0 0 3
.
 
 .
 Chorus:
 .         G    C         G       D           G             C            
 .   (So) bye-bye, Miss American Pie.Drove my Chevy to the levee but the 
 .    G         D         G        C                  G          D     
 .   levee was dry, them good ole boys were drinkin' whiskey and Rye, singing
 .   Em                        A7      Em                         D7
 .   this'll be the day that I die,    This'll be the day that I die.__
 .
 G              Am,                          C                    Am      
 Helter skelter in the summer swelter__ the birds flew off with a fallout 
 shelter
 Em                            D         G       D       Em 
 Eight miles high and falling fast__  it landed foul out on the grass
 .    Am                  C                   Em       A7               D7
 The players tried for a forward pass but the jester's on the sidelines in a 
 cast
 .   Em                 D                       Em                 D  
 The half time air was sweet perfume while the seargeants played a 
 marching tune
 _  C      G       A7                     C        D7     
 we all got up to dance___  (OH) but we never got the chance.   'Cause 
 .    G        D      Em                       Am              C
 the players tried to take the field, but the marching band refused to yield
 .G       D        Em                       C        D7    G  C  G 
 Do you recall what was revealed  _____ the day the music died.
 G          D7
 We started singin'      (chorus)
 .
 G                          Am,              C           Am      
 Oh,  And there we were all in one place,  A generation lost in space.
 Em                     D                        G      D       Em 
 With no time left, to start again. So come on, Jack be nimble, jack be quick,
 Am                  C                     Em          A7            D7
 Jack flash sat on a candlestick.   'Cause fire is the devil's only friend.
 .   Em               D                Em                     D   
 And as I watched him on the stage  my hands were clenched in fists of rage.
 .  C     G       A7              C                 D7     
 no angel born in hell__   could break that satan's spell
 .            G             D     Em               Am            C
 And as the flames climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial rite
 .      G    D         Em                 C       D7     G   C  G 
 I saw Satan laughing with delight,  the day the music died.    
 G          D7
 He was singin'     (chorus)
 .
 .  G     D       Em                
 I met a girl who sang the blues so 
 .  Am                  C            Em                                D 
 I asked her for some happy news but she just smiled__    and turned away.
 . G     D          Em                      Am              C 
 I went down to the sacred store.  Where I heard the music years before.__
 .       Em                 C              D
 But the man there said the music wouldn't play.__     And
 Em                  Am                    Em                   Am    
 in the streets the children screamed, the lovers cried and the poets 
 dreamed.
 .    C     G        Am              C                          D 
 But not a word was spoken.__  The church__ bells_ all_ were_ broken.
 .         G       D   Em               Am7                 D  
 And the three men I admire most:  the father, Son and the Holy Ghost__
 .     G          D         Em                 C       D7     G   C  G
 They caught the last train for the coast the day, the music died.
 G             D7                              C             D7         G C G
 And they were singing:(chorus twice, ending: this'll be the day that I die)
 .
 Chord chart:
 string: E A D G B E           E A D G B E           E A D G B E
 A       0 0 2 2 2 0    Am7    0 0 2 0 1 0    D7     x x 0 2 1 2
 Am      0 0 2 2 1 0    C      x 3 2 0 1 0   Em      0 2 2 0 0 0
 A7      0 0 2 0 2 0    D      x x 0 2 3 2   G       3 2 0 0 0 3
 .
 If you're want songs I might be able to enter (crd) and might want to
 enter songs I might need,. drop me a note.
 _
 George can pardon Caspar Weinberger, but who will pardon George?
 Will he resign so President Quale (sp?) can do it?
 _
 "It's never too late to have a happy childhood" (Tom Robbins)
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