1] A long, long ago... I can still How that music used to make me And I if I had my chance That I could those people dance And, maybe, be happy for a while But made me shiver every paper I'd deliver Bad on the doorstep; I couldn't one more step I can't remember if I I read about his widowed bride But something touched me inside The day the music
So bye-bye, Miss Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the was dry And good 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 have faith in God If the Bible 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 with him `cause I saw you in the gym You both off your shoes Man, I dig those rhythm and I was a teenage broncin' buck With a carnation and a pickup truck 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' 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 jester sang for the king and In a he borrowed from James Dean And a voice that came you and me Oh, and while the was looking down The jester stole his crown The courtroom was No was returned And Lennon read a book on Marx The quartet in the park And we dirges in the dark The day the died We singing
Bye, bye American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the was dry And them ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die be the day that I die
4] Helter skelter in a summer The birds off with a fallout shelter Eight miles high and falling It foul on the grass The tried for a forward pass the jester on the sidelines in a cast Now the half-time air was sweet the sergeants played a marching tune We all got up to Oh, but we got the chance! `cause the players to take the field; The marching band refused to Do you what was revealed The day the died? We started
Bye, bye Miss 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 This'll be the day I die
5] Oh, and we were all in one place A generation in space With no left to start again So on: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick! Flash sat on a candlestick Cause is the devil's only friend Oh, and as I him on the stage My hands were in fists of rage No born in hell Could that Satan's spell And as the flames climbed into the night To light the sacrificial I saw laughing with delight The day the music We singing
Bye, bye American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee but the was dry And them good ole were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die This'll be the day I die
6] I met a girl who the blues And I her for some happy news But she just smiled and turned I went down to the sacred Where I'd heard the music years But the man there said the music wouldn't And in the streets: the children The lovers cried, and the dreamed But not a was spoken; The church bells all were And the men I admire most: The father, son, and the ghost caught the last train for the coast The day the died And were singing
[Deleted And there I stood alone and I dropped to my knees and there I And I him everything I could give If only he make the music live And he promised it would live once But time one would equal four And in five years had come to mourn And the was reborn
Bye, bye American Pie Drove my Chevy to the 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 They were Bye, bye Miss Pie Drove my to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were whiskey and rye this'll be the day that I die