1] A long, long ago... I can remember How that music used to make me And I knew if I had my That I make those people dance And, maybe, they'd be happy for a But made me shiver With every paper I'd Bad news on the I couldn't take one step I can't remember if I When I read about his widowed But something touched me deep The day the music
So bye-bye, Miss Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the was dry And them old boys were drinking 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 tells you so? Do you believe in rock 'n' Can music save your soul And can you teach me how to dance slow? Well, I know that you're in love him `cause I saw you in the gym You both kicked off shoes Man, I dig those and blues I was a teenage broncin' buck With a pink and a pickup truck But I I was out of luck The day the died I singing
Bye, bye American Pie Drove my Chevy to the but the levee was dry And them ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' be the day that I die This'll be the day I die
3] Now for ten we've been on our own And moss grows fat on a stone But not how it used to be When the sang for the king and queen In a coat he borrowed from James And a voice that came you and me Oh, and while the king was down The jester stole his crown The courtroom was No was returned And Lennon read a book on Marx The practiced in the park And we sang dirges in the The day the music We singing
Bye, bye American Pie Drove my 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
4] Helter skelter in a swelter The birds flew off with a fallout miles high and falling fast It landed on the grass The tried for a forward pass With the jester on the in a cast Now the half-time air was perfume While the sergeants played a marching We all got up to Oh, but we got the chance! `cause the players tried to take the The marching band refused to Do you recall was revealed The day the music We singing
Bye, bye Miss Pie Drove my Chevy to the but the levee was dry And them good ole were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' be the day that I die be the day that I die
5] Oh, and there we all in one place A generation lost in no time left to start again So come on: Jack be nimble, be quick! Jack sat on a candlestick Cause fire is the devil's only Oh, and as I him on the stage My hands were in fists of rage No angel born in Could break that Satan's And as the climbed high into the night To the sacrificial rite I saw Satan laughing with The day the music We were
Bye, bye American Pie my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And good ole boys 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 some happy But she smiled and turned away I down to the sacred store Where I'd heard the music before But the man said the music wouldn't play And in the the children screamed The lovers cried, and the poets But not a word was The church bells all broken And the three men I admire The father, son, and the holy caught the last train for the coast The day the died And they were
[Deleted And there I stood alone and I to my knees and there I prayed And I him everything I could give If only he make the music live And he promised it would once more But this one would equal four And in five four had come to mourn And the was reborn
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