Don McLean – American Pie (Bass Tab)

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...Now for ten years we've been on our own and moss grows fat on a rollin'

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  stone but that's not how it used to be...            When the

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  Jester sang for the King and Queen in a coat he'd borrowed from James Dean

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  and a voice      that came     from you and me                     Oh and

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  While the King was looking down, the Jester stole his thorny crown    

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  The court room was adjourned...          no verdict was returned...

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  And while Lenin read a book of Marx      the quartet practiced in the park

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  and we sang dirges in the dark     The day      the music 

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  died...               We were singing... Bye     bye Miss American pie

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 drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry   them good old boys were

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 drinkin whiskey and rye -- singin' this'll be the day that I die...

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 this'll be the day that I die...