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American Pie by Don Mclean

American Pie chords by Don Mclean

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American Pie

Don McLean
"American Pie"


  Performance Notes:
 Acoustic guitar, with open position chords.

 Chords
G  320033
D  xx0232
Em7 022030
Am x02210
C  x32010
Em 022000
D7 xx0212
Am7 x02010 or x02213
A7 x02020 or x02223
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  Prologue (Strum Freely / Slowly usu. only the once per chord)
  G   D  Em7    Am        C
A | long, long time ago | I can ...

 Em           D        G     D   Em7   (G)
| music used to make me smile |   And | I ...

 Am    (G)    C         Em        C
| I could make those people dance and | ...

 D     Em       Am       Em          Am
| while  | But February made me shiver ...|

 C    G   Am      C         D
| Bad news on the doorstep I | ...

                  (C)       (D7)
 G    D      Em  (G)   Am7       D
| can't remember if I cried when I | ...


 G      D    Em        C (Am7) D7   G  C  G (D7)
| something touched me deep in-...|    |
                              Del Segna al Coda
          (Play from Segna till it says to go to the Coda)

  Chorus (in a slightly faster tempo)
  (SEGNA)

  |*G  C      G      D        G    C
So |* bye-bye, Miss A_|_merican Pie ...

 G      D     G      C        G       D TO CODA
| levee was dry. Them |good ole boys were ...

 Em             A7    Em             D7
| this'll be the day that I | die  | This'll ...|


  Verses 1,2,3,4.

|G  |Am |C  |Am  |Em  |D  | % |G D |Em  |Am7  |C  |Em  |

|A7 |D  | % |Em  |D   |Em  |D  |C G |A7  |C   |D7 |G D |
                         _______
                        | 1.2.3.
                            *|
|Em |Am |C  |G D |Em  |C  |D7  |G C |G D7 *|
 ______
| 4.

|G    D    |D  C  |G  D  |G  C  |G  D  |G  C  |G  D  |
| He was singing | etc.

|Em   |A7   |Em   |D7   |

  For the 5th verse, play the prologue, adding the chords in (x) in and
substituting a chord for a previousey written one when you see  (C)
                                 Am7
(Ie: play a C instaid of, not as well as, the Am7)

Also remember to go back to the slow strumming for the 5th verse.

  Coda

 C         D7      G  C   G
| This'll be the day that ...|
.

Written out by The Loan Arranger    c9609436@alinga.newcastle.edu.au
20/11/96 (rev 11/97)

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