Griffe:
Vorspiel:
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A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music
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Used to make me smile.
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D Em
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And I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people dance
and
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Maybe they'd be happy for a while.
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But February made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver,
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Bad news on the doorstep I couldn't take one more step.
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Em
I can't remember if I cried when I
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Read about his widowed bride. Something touched me deep inside,
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D7 G
The day the music died.
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So bye bye Miss American Pie, Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the
levee was dry.
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D
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And good ole boys we drinking Whisky and rye, singing this will be
the day that I die,
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This will be the day that I die.
1. Strophe:
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Am
Did you write the book of love and do
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Em D
You have faith in God above. If the Bible tells you so.
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Do you belive in Rock'n'Roll can Music save your mortal soul,
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D
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?
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Well I know that you're in love with him, cause I saw you dancing in
the gym.
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You both kicked of your shoes, man, I dig those Rhythm and Blues.
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Em
I was a lonely teenage broning buck with a
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Pink carnation and a pick-up Truck, but I knew I was out of luck,
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The day the music died.
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2. Strophe:
Now for ten years we've been on our own, and
Moss grows fat on a Rolling Stone, but that's not how it used
to be.
When the jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he borrowed from
James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me.
And while the king was looking down, the jester stole his thorny crown.
The courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned.
And while Lenin read a book of Marx
The quartet practised in the park, and we sang dirges in the dark,
The day the music died.
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3. Strophe:
Helter skelter in the summer swelter the
Birds flew off with fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass the players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.
Now the halftime air was sweet perfume, while the Sergeants played
the marching tune.
We all got up to dance, but we never got the chance.
Cause the players tried to take the field,
The marching band refused to yield, do you recall what was revealed,
The day the music died.
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4. Strophe:
And there we were all in one place a
Generation lost in space, with no time left to start again.
So come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack flash sat on a candlestick,
Cause fire is the devil's only friend.
And as I watched him on the stage, my hands were clenched in fists
of rage,
No angle born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.
And as the flames climed high into the night,
To light the secrificial rite, I saw Satan laughing with delite,
The day the music died.
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Nachspiel (Melodie wie Vorspiel):
I met a girl who sang the Blues and I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the sacret store, where I heared the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn't play.
In the streets the children screamed, the lovers cried and the poets
dreamed.
But not a word was spoken, the church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most,
The father, son and the holy ghost, they caught the last train for
the coast,
The day the music died.
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