1] A long, time ago... I can still How music used to make me smile And I if I had my chance That I make those people dance And, maybe, they'd be happy for a But February made me With every I'd deliver Bad news on the I couldn't take one step I can't remember if I I read about his widowed bride But something me deep inside The day the died
So bye-bye, American Pie my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them good old boys were whiskey 'n rye Singing, "This'll be the day I die "This'll be the day I die."
2] Did you write the book of And do you faith in God above If the Bible you so? Do you believe in rock 'n' Can music save your mortal And can you teach me how to real slow? Well, I know that you're in love him `cause I saw you in the gym You both off your shoes Man, I dig those and blues I was a lonely teenage broncin' With a pink carnation and a pickup But I knew I was out of The day the died I started
Bye, bye American Pie Drove my Chevy to the but the levee was dry And them good ole boys drinking whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die This'll be the day I die
3] Now for ten years been on our own And grows fat on a rollin' stone But not how it used to be When the sang for the king and queen In a he borrowed from James Dean And a voice that from you and me Oh, and while the was looking down The stole his thorny crown The courtroom was No verdict was And while Lennon read a book on The quartet practiced in the And we sang dirges in the The day the music We were
Bye, bye American Pie my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die be the day that I die
4] Helter in a summer swelter The birds flew off a fallout shelter Eight miles high and fast It foul on the grass The players for a forward pass With the jester on the in a cast Now the half-time air was perfume While the sergeants a marching tune We all got up to Oh, but we got the chance! `cause the players tried to take the The band refused to yield Do you what was revealed The day the died? We singing
Bye, bye Miss Pie Drove my to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys drinking whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die be the day that I die
5] Oh, and there we all in one place A generation in space With no time left to start So come on: Jack be nimble, be quick! Flash sat on a candlestick Cause fire is the devil's friend Oh, and as I watched him on the My hands were in fists of rage No born in hell Could break Satan's spell And as the climbed high into the night To light the rite I saw laughing with delight The day the died We were
Bye, bye American Pie my Chevy to the levee but the levee 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
6] I met a girl who the blues And I asked her for happy news But she just and turned away I went down to the store Where I'd heard the years before But the man there said the music wouldn't And in the the children screamed The cried, and the poets dreamed But not a word was The church bells all broken And the men I admire most: The father, son, and the holy They caught the train for the coast The day the music And were singing
[Deleted And there I stood alone and I dropped to my and there I prayed And I promised him everything I give If only he would make the music And he promised it would live once But this time one would equal And in years four had come to mourn And the music was
Bye, bye American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the was dry And them good ole boys were drinking and rye this'll be the day that I die This'll be the day I die They singing Bye, bye Miss Pie Drove my to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys drinking whiskey and rye Singin' be the day that I die