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Performance Notes:
Acoustic guitar, with open position chords.
Chords
SOL 320033
RE xx0232
MIm7 022030
LAm x02210
DO x32010
MIm 022000
RE7 xx0212
Am7 x02010 or x02213
A7 x02020 or x02223
Prologue (Strum Freely / Slowly usu. only the once per chord)
SOL RE MIm7 LAm DO
A | long, long time ago | I can ...
MIm RE SOL RE MIm7 (G)
| music used to make me smile | And | I ...
LAm (G) DO MIm DO
| I could make those people dance and | ...
RE MIm LAm MIm LAm
| while | But February made me shiver ...|
DO SOL LAm DO RE
| Bad news on the doorstep I | ...
(C) (D7)
SOL RE MIm (G) LAm7 RE
| can't remember if I cried when I | ...
SOL RE MIm DO (Am7) RE7 SOL DO SOL (D7)
| something touched me deep in-...| |
Del Segna al Coda
(Play from Segna till it says to go to the Coda)
Chorus ( in a slightly faster tempo )
(SEGNA)
SOL DO SOL RE SOL DO
So |* bye-bye, Miss A_|_merican Pie ...
G D G C G D TO CODA
| levee was dry. Them |good ole boys were ...
MIm LA7 MIm RE7
| this'll be the day that I | die | This'll ...|
Verses 1,2,3,4.
|G |Am |C |Am |Em |D | % |G D |Em |Am7 |C |Em |
|A7 |D | % |Em |D |Em |D |C G |A7 |C |D7 |G D |
1 2 3
MIm LAm DO SOL RE MIm DO RE7 SOL DO SOL RE7
4
SOL RE RE DO SOL RE SOL DO SOL RE SOL DO SOL RE
| He was singing | etc.
MIm LA7 MIm RE7
For the 5th verse, play the prologue, adding the chords in (x) in and
substituting a chord for a previousey written one when you see (C)
LAm7
(Ie: play a C instaid of, not as well as, the Am7)
Also remember to go back to the slow strumming for the 5th verse.
Coda
DO RE7 SOL DO SOL
| This'll be the day that ...|
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