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A long, long time ago

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I can still remember how that music used to make me smile

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And I know if I had my chance

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That I could make those people dance and 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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I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride

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Something touched me deep inside the day the music died

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So bye, bye Miss American Pie

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Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry

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And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye

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Singin' this will be the day that I die, this will be the day that I die

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Did you write the book of love, and do you have faith in God above

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If the bible tells you so?

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Do you believe in rock and roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

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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 dancin' in the gym

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You both kicked off your shoes, man I dig those rhythm and blues

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D/f#

Em

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I was a lonely teenage bronkin' buck with a pink carnation and a pick-up truck

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D7

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But I knew I was out of luck the day the music died I started singin', bye, bye Miss American Pie...

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Now for ten years we've been on our own, and moss grows fat on a rolling stone

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But that's not how it used to be

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When the jester sang for the king and queen, in a coat he borrowed from James Dean

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In a voice that came from you and me

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And while the king was looking down, the jester stole his thorny crown

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The courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned

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Em

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

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D7

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And we sang dirges in the dark the day the music died We were singin', bye, bye Miss American Pie...

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Helter skelter in a summer swelter, the birds flew off with a fallout shelter

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Eight miles high and fallin' fast

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It landed foul upon the grass, the players tried for a forward pass

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With the jester on the sidelines in a cast

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Now at half-time there was sweet perfume, while sergeants played a marching tune

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We all got up to dance, but we never got the chance

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'Cause the players tried to take the field, the marching band refused to yield

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Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died We started singin' bye, bye Miss American Pie...

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And there we were all in one place, a generation lost in space

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With no time left to start again

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So come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack Flash sat on a candle stick

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'Cause fire is the devil's only friend

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And as I watched him on the stage, my hands were clenched in fists of rage

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D7

No angel born in Hell could break that Satan's spell

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And as the flames climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial rite

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D7

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I saw Satan laughing with delight the day the music died He was singin' bye, bye Miss American Pie...

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I met a girl who sang the blues, and I asked her for some happy news

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But she just smiled and turned away

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I went down to the sacred store, where I'd heard the music years before

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But the man there said the music wouldn't play

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But in the streets the children screamed, the lovers cried and the poets dreamed

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But not a word was spoken, the church bells all were broken

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And the three men I admire most, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost

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Em

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They caught the last train for the coast the day the music died And they were singin' bye, bye Miss American Pie...

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Singin' this will be the day that I die

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I always flirt with death

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I look cute, but I don't care about it I can't face your threats And stand up straight and tall and shout about it

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I think I'm on another world with you, with you

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I'm on another planet with you, with you You get under my skin I don't find it irritating You're always playing to win But I won't need rehabilitating, oh no I think I'm on another world with you, with you I'm on another planet with you, with you

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Another girl, another planet

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Another girl, another planet

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Space travel's in my blood There ain't nothing I can do about it Long journeys wear me out But I know I can't live without it, I know I think I'm on another world with you, with you I'm on another planet with you, with you

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Another girl, who's loving you now?

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Another planet, who's holding you down?

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Another planet

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Well the southside of Chicago

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Is the baddest part of town

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And if you go down there you better just beware

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Of a man named Leroy Brown Now Leroy, more than trouble You see he stands about six foot four All the downtown ladies call him "Treetop Lover" All the men just call him "Sir" And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown The baddest man in the whole damn town Badder than old King Kong Meaner than a junkyard dog Now Leroy he a gambler And he like his fancy clothes And he like to wave his diamond rings Under everybody's nose He got a custom Continental He got an Eldorado too He got a .32 gun in his pocket full of fun He got a razor in his shoe And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown The baddest man in the whole damn town Badder than old King Kong And meaner than a junkyard dog Well Friday 'bout a week ago Leroy shootin' dice And at the edge of the bar sat a girl named Doris And oh that girl looked nice Well he cast his eyes upon her And the trouble soon began And Leroy Brown had learned a lesson 'Bout a-messin' with the wife of a jealous man And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown The baddest man in the whole damn town Badder than a-old King Kong And meaner than a junkyard dog Well the two men took to fighting And when they pulled them from the floor Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle With a couple of pieces gone And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown The baddest man in the whole damn town Badder than old King Kong And meaner than a junkyard dog And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown The baddest man in the whole damn town Badder than old King Kong And meaner than a junkyard dog Yeah he was badder than old King Kong And meaner than a junkyard dog

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Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore

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G/d

And I'm young and I'm strong But I feel old and tired, overfired

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G/d

A/d

And I've been poked and stoked, it's all smoke, there's no more fire, only desire

Em7

For you, whoever you are

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For you, whoever you are

D

G/d

You say my time here has been some sort of joke

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G/d

That I've been messing around, some sort of incubating period

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Gsus2

For when I really come around I'm cracking up

Em7

And you have no idea

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No idea how it feels to be on your own

Gsus2

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In your own home with the fucking phone

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And the mother of gloom in your bedroom

Gsus2

Standing over your head

Em7

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With her hand in your head, with her hand in your head

Gsus2

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I will not pretend I will not put on a smile

Gsus2

A

I will not say I'm all right for you when all I wanted was to be good

Gsus2

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To do everything in truth, to do everything in truth

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G/d

Oh I wish, I wish, I wish I was born a man

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Gsus2

So I could learn how to stand up for myself

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Gsus2

Like those guys with guitars I've been watching in bars

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Gsus2

Who've been stamping their feet to a different beat

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To a different beat, to a different beat

Gsus2

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I will not pretend I will not put on a smile

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I will not say I'm all right for you when all I wanted was to be good

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To do everything in truth, to do everything in truth

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