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Here's one of two posts I had originally sent to jamesb's account at
nevada and never got posted (and bounced from guitar@nevada.edu).
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 you may wish to embelish the strumming with a Dsus4. Happy
playing :)
Define chords:
Chord e a d g b e
----- - - - - - -
A7 x 0 2 0 2 0
Am x 0 2 2 1 0
Am7 x 0 2 0 1 0
Am7* x 0 2 2 1 3
C x 3 2 0 1 0
D x x 0 2 3 2
Dsus4 x x 0 2 3 3
D7 x x 0 2 1 2
Em 0 2 2 0 0 0
Em7 0 2 0 0 0 0
G 3 2 0 0 0 3
American Pie - Don McLean
-------------------------
G D Em7
A long, long ...,
Am C Em D
I can still remember how that ...
G D Em7
And I know if I ...
Am C Em C D
That I could make those people dance and ...
Em Am Em Am
But February made me shiver, with ...
C G Am C D
Bad news on the doorstep, I ...
G D Em Am7 D
I can't remember if I cried when I ...
G D Em
Something touched me ...
C D7 G C G
The day the ...
*Chorus*
G C G D
So bye, bye Miss ...
G C G D
Drove my Chevy to the levy ...
G C G D
And them good old boys were ...
Em A7 Em D7
Singin' this will be the day that I die, ...
*Verse*
G Am
Did you write the boo...
C Am Em D
And do you have faith in god ...?
G D Em
Do you believe in ..
Am7* C Em A7 D
Can music save your mortal soul and can you ...?
Em D Em D
Well I know that you're in love with him 'cuz I ...
C G A7 C D7
You both kicked off your shoes, ...
G D Em Am C
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck with ...
G D Em C D7 G C 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 D Em
I met a girl who sang ...
Am C Em D
And I asked her for some happy news, ....
G D Em
I went down to the ...
(G) (Am) (G) (C) (Em)
Am C Em C
Where I'd heard the music years before, ...
D
wouldn't play
Em Am Em Am
But in the streets the children screamed...
dreamed
C G Am C D
But not a word was spoken, the church ...
(G)
G D Em Am7 C D7
And the three men I admire most, the ...
G D Em Am7 D7 G
They caught the last train for the ...,
D7
And they ...
*Final Chorus*
G C G D
So bye, bye ...
G C G D
Drove my Chevy to the levy but ...
G C G D
And them good old boys were ...
C D7 G C G
Singin' this will be the ....
/> Andrew Fowler (Zanar on the net) Snail Mail:
/< afowler@minerva.cis.yale.edu 624 Orange Street
*[/////|:::==================================- Apartment 1B
\< fowler@psgi.chem.yale.edu New Haven, CT 06511
\> Phone (IRL): 203-782-1379
nevada and never got posted (and bounced from guitar@nevada.edu).
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 you may wish to embelish the strumming with a Dsus4. Happy
playing :)
Define chords:
Chord e a d g b e
----- - - - - - -
A7 x 0 2 0 2 0
Am x 0 2 2 1 0
Am7 x 0 2 0 1 0
Am7* x 0 2 2 1 3
C x 3 2 0 1 0
D x x 0 2 3 2
Dsus4 x x 0 2 3 3
D7 x x 0 2 1 2
Em 0 2 2 0 0 0
Em7 0 2 0 0 0 0
G 3 2 0 0 0 3
American Pie - Don McLean
-------------------------
G D Em7
A long, long ...,
Am C Em D
I can still remember how that ...
G D Em7
And I know if I ...
Am C Em C D
That I could make those people dance and ...
Em Am Em Am
But February made me shiver, with ...
C G Am C D
Bad news on the doorstep, I ...
G D Em Am7 D
I can't remember if I cried when I ...
G D Em
Something touched me ...
C D7 G C G
The day the ...
*Chorus*
G C G D
So bye, bye Miss ...
G C G D
Drove my Chevy to the levy ...
G C G D
And them good old boys were ...
Em A7 Em D7
Singin' this will be the day that I die, ...
*Verse*
G Am
Did you write the boo...
C Am Em D
And do you have faith in god ...?
G D Em
Do you believe in ..
Am7* C Em A7 D
Can music save your mortal soul and can you ...?
Em D Em D
Well I know that you're in love with him 'cuz I ...
C G A7 C D7
You both kicked off your shoes, ...
G D Em Am C
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck with ...
G D Em C D7 G C 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 D Em
I met a girl who sang ...
Am C Em D
And I asked her for some happy news, ....
G D Em
I went down to the ...
(G) (Am) (G) (C) (Em)
Am C Em C
Where I'd heard the music years before, ...
D
wouldn't play
Em Am Em Am
But in the streets the children screamed...
dreamed
C G Am C D
But not a word was spoken, the church ...
(G)
G D Em Am7 C D7
And the three men I admire most, the ...
G D Em Am7 D7 G
They caught the last train for the ...,
D7
And they ...
*Final Chorus*
G C G D
So bye, bye ...
G C G D
Drove my Chevy to the levy but ...
G C G D
And them good old boys were ...
C D7 G C G
Singin' this will be the ....
/> Andrew Fowler (Zanar on the net) Snail Mail:
/< afowler@minerva.cis.yale.edu 624 Orange Street
*[/////|:::==================================- Apartment 1B
\< fowler@psgi.chem.yale.edu New Haven, CT 06511
\> Phone (IRL): 203-782-1379
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