1] A long, time ago... I can still How that music used to me smile And I knew if I had my That I could make people dance And, maybe, they'd be happy for a But February me shiver With every I'd deliver Bad on the doorstep; I couldn't take one more I can't remember if I I read about his widowed bride But something me deep inside The day the music
So bye-bye, American Pie Drove my to the levee but the levee was dry And them good old boys drinking whiskey 'n rye Singing, "This'll be the day I die "This'll be the day I die."
2] Did you write the of love And do you have faith in God If the tells you so? Do you believe in rock 'n' Can music your mortal soul And can you teach me how to real slow? Well, I that you're in love with him `cause I saw you in the gym You both kicked off shoes Man, I dig rhythm and blues I was a teenage broncin' buck a pink carnation and a pickup truck But I I was out of luck The day the music I singing
Bye, bye American Pie my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' be the day that I die be the day that I die
3] Now for ten years we've on our own And grows fat on a rollin' stone But that's not how it to be When the sang for the king and queen In a coat he borrowed from Dean And a voice that came you and me Oh, and while the was looking down The jester his thorny crown The was adjourned; No verdict was And while Lennon a book on Marx The practiced in the park And we sang in the dark The day the music We singing
Bye, bye Miss Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the was dry And them good ole were drinking whiskey and rye this'll be the day that I die This'll be the day I die
4] Helter in a summer swelter The birds off with a fallout shelter Eight miles high and falling It landed on the grass The players tried for a forward With the jester on the in a cast Now the air was sweet perfume While the sergeants played a marching We all got up to Oh, but we got the chance! `cause the players tried to the field; The marching band to yield Do you recall was revealed The day the music We started
Bye, bye American Pie my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye this'll be the day that I die This'll be the day I die
5] Oh, and there we were all in one A lost in space With no left to start again So come on: be nimble, Jack be quick! Jack Flash sat on a Cause fire is the devil's friend Oh, and as I him on the stage My were clenched in fists of rage No angel born in Could that Satan's spell And as the climbed high into the night To light the sacrificial I saw Satan laughing delight The day the music We were
Bye, bye American Pie Drove my Chevy to the but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were whiskey and rye Singin' be the day that I die This'll be the day I die
6] I met a who sang the blues And I asked her for happy news But she just smiled and turned I went down to the sacred Where I'd heard the music years But the man there said the wouldn't play And in the the children screamed The lovers cried, and the poets But not a was spoken; The church bells all were And the three men I admire The father, son, and the holy They caught the last train for the The day the music And they were
Verse] And there I stood alone and I dropped to my and there I prayed And I him everything I could give If he would make the music live And he it would live once more But time one would equal four And in five years four had to mourn And the was reborn
Bye, bye Miss Pie Drove my to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were drinking and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die be the day that I die They singing Bye, bye American Pie Drove my Chevy to the but the levee was dry And good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die