American Pie Chords by Madonna

[Start]

[Chorus]
Ab     Fm            Bbm         Db      
A long long time ago I can still remember
Fm                          Eb      
How that music used to make me smile
Ab                   Fm7          
And I knew that if I had my chance
Bbm                       Db   
I could make those people dance
           Fm        Ab          Eb   
Well maybe they'd be happy for a while


[Inst]
Ebsus4 Fm7 F7 Fm7 Fm
■      ■   ■  ■   ■ 


[Verse]
                  F7          
Did you write the book of love
                         Fm       
And do you have faith in God above
             Eb          
If the bible tells you so
       Fm                          
Now do you believe in rock and roll
        Fm                         
And can music save your mortal soul
    Fm                                     
And can you teach me how to dance real slow
                 F7                     
Well I know that you're in love with him
                         Fm        
'cause I saw you dancing in the gym
Eb                            
You both kicked off your shoes
      Eb                         
Man I dig those rhythms and blues
      F7               Fm           
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
                            Fm7         
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
      F7                         
But I knew that I was out of luck
    Ab  Bb     Db    Ab   Eb
The day ■  the music died ■ 
          Eb     
I started singing


[Chorus]
Ab                       
Bye bye Miss American Pie
         Ab                                      
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
    Ab                                         
And good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Fm                                  Eb 
Singing this will be the day that I die
Fm                   Eb         Fm
This will be the day that I die ■ 


[Verse]
Fm7 Fm               F7            
■   I met a girl who sang the blues
                         F7        
And I asked her for some happy news
                    Eb            
She just smiled and ■  turned away
       Fm                           
Well I went down to the sacred store
      Fm                              
Where I'd heard the music years before
                                          Eb  
But the man there said the music wouldn't play
                            Eb               
Well now in the streets the children screamed
                         Fm           
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
Eb                       
But not a word was spoken
    Eb                          
The church bells all were broken
        F7                     Fm  
And the three men I admire the most
F7                     Fm        
The father son and the holy ghost
F7                         Ab           
They caught the last train for the coast
    Bb      Db    Ab  
The day the music died
Eb                
We started singing


[Chorus]
Ab                       
Bye bye Miss American Pie
                      Db            Ab           
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
    Ab                                         
And good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Fm                                     
Singing this will be the day that I die
                            Eb 
This will be the day that I die
           Eb     
We started singing
           Eb     
We started singing
Fm                
We started singing
           Fm     
We started singing
Eb                
We started singing


[Inst]
Ab Db Ab Fm Eb
■  ■  ■  ■  ■ 
   Eb             
We started singing
   Eb             
We started singing


[Chorus]
Ab                
We started singing
             Ab          
Bye bye Miss American Pie
                                    Db    Ab     
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
             Db                 Ab             
And good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Fm                           Ab     Eb 
Singing this will be the day that I die
Fm                          Eb 
This will be the day that I die
Ab                       
Bye bye Miss American Pie
         Ab                                      
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
             Db                 Ab             
And good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Fm                                  Eb 
Singing this will be the day that I die


[End]
Fm                   Eb        
This will be the day that I die