How to Play American Pie on Guitar
How to Play American Pie on Guitar
Learn how to play American Pie on Acoustic Guitar View video
How to Play American Pie on Guitar
The B Chord Guitar Lesson
A GUITAR LESSON SHOWING YOU HOW TO PLAY THE B CHORD WITH TAB View video
How to Play American Pie on Guitar
How to Play Blues 1-4-5 Patteren with Power Chords
Learn how to play 12 Bar 1-4-5 Blues style with power chords. This demo uses B5, B6, E5, E6, F#5, F#6. Key of B of course. The strum uses triplets to get the bluesy feel. View video
How to Play American Pie on Guitar
How to Play Guitar: Chord Exercise
Now that we've learned our chords, Patrick McCormick teaches you a chord exercise. View video
How to Play American Pie on Guitar
Guitar Lesson: Proper Picking Method
View video

Don Mclean : "American pie" Guitar chords

Play full song
free music
free music

Here is the Guitar chords for "American pie" by Don Mclean. To get the complete songlist of this band please visit the Don Mclean guitar tabs archive for guitar tabs, bass tabs and chords. We also have a review section with Don Mclean CD reviews. Please help us to build our bass and guitar tabs archive, submit missing Don Mclean tabs here. You will find a printer friendly version of Don Mclean: American pie Guitar chords here

Don Mclean - American pie Tab
 		American pie tabs Send "American pie" Ringtone to your Cell American pie tabs 




Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:51:51 +1100 (EST)
From: The Loan Arranger 
Subject: m/mclean_don/american_pie.crd


    American Pie

Don McLean
"American Pie"


    Performance Notes:
  Acoustic guitar, with open position chords.

  Chords
G   320033
D   xx0232
Em7 022030
Am  x02210
C   x32010
Em  022000
D7  xx0212
Am7 x02010 or x02213
A7  x02020 or x02223


    Prologue  (Strum Freely / Slowly  usu. only the once per chord) 
   G      D    Em7       Am               C
A | long, long time ago | I can ...

 Em                      D                G         D      Em7     (G)
| music used to make me smile |      And | I ...
 
 Am       (G)        C                 Em               C
| I could make those people dance and | ...

 D         Em             Am             Em                    Am  
| while   | But February made me shiver ...|

 C        G      Am           C                  D
| Bad news on the doorstep I | ...

                                    (C)             (D7)
 G        D            Em   (G)     Am7             D
| can't remember if I cried when I | ...

                                                
 G            D        Em                C  (Am7) D7      G    C    G  (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)
   
   |*G    C            G           D                G        C
So |* bye-bye, Miss A_|_merican Pie ...

 G           D         G           C                G             D  TO CODA
| levee was dry. Them |good ole boys were ...

  Em                         A7       Em                          D7
| 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.
                                                       *|
|Em  |Am  |C    |G  D |Em    |C    |D7   |G  C  |G  D7 *|       
 ______
| 4.

|G       D       |D   C   |G   D   |G   C   |G   D   |G   C   |G   D   |
| He was singing | etc.

|Em     |A7     |Em     |D7     |       

    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)
                                                                 Am7
(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

 C                  D7           G    C     G
| This'll be the day that ...|
.

Written out by The Loan Arranger       c9609436@alinga.newcastle.edu.au
20/11/96 (rev 11/97)

Mclean Don - american pie Tab
 		american pie tabs Send "american pie" Ringtone to your Cell american pie tabs