A long long time ago

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

And I knew if I had my chance

that I could make those people dance

and maybe they'd be happy for a while

But February made me shiver with every paper I'd daliver

Bad news on the doorstap

I couldn't take one more step

I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride

Something touched me deep inside the day the music died.

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So bye bye Miss American pie

Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry

Them good ole boys were drinkin' whisky ane rye

singin' this'll be the day that I die

This'll be the day that I die

This'll be the day that I die

Did you write the book of love and

do you have faith in God above?

If the Bible tells you so

Now do you believe in rook and roll

can Music save your mortal soul and

can you teach me how to dance real slow?

Well I know that you're in love with him

cause I saw you dancin' in the gym

You both kicked off your shose

Man, I dig those rhythm and bluses

I was a lonely teenage broncin's buck

with a pink carnation and a pickup truck

But I knew I was out of luck the day the music died.

I started singing bye bye

**Repeat

Now for ten years we've been on our own

and moss grows fat on a rollin's stone

But that's not how it used to be

When the Jester sang for the king and Queen in a coat

He Borrowned from James Dean and a voice that came from you and me

Oh, and while the king was looking down the Jester

stole his thorny crown

The courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned

And while Lennin read a book on Marx

the coart took  practice in the park and we SONG dirties in the dark

the day the music died.  We were singin's bye bye  **(Repeat)

Helter-skelter in the summer sweiter

the birds flew off with a fall-out shelter

Eight miles high and fallin's fast, it landed foul on the gress

the players tried for a forware pass,

with the Jester on the sidelines in a coat

Now the half-time air was sweet paerfume

While the sergeants played a marching tune

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

Cause the players tried to take the field,

the marching band refused to yield

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died

We started singin's bye bye

**Repeat

In there we were all in one place,

A generation lost in space with no time left to start again

So come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick

Jack sat on a candlestick cause fire is the devils only friend

(Oh) as I watched him on the stage,

my hands were clenched in festive rage

No angel born in heaven could break that stan's spell

And as the flames climbed high into the night

the sacrificial rite I saw satan

Laughing with delight the day the music died.

He was singin's bye bye

**Repeat

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

but the just smiled and turned away I went down to the sacred store

where I heard the music years before

But the man there said the music wouldn't play

The lovers cried and the posts dreamed

(But) Not a word was spoken, the church bells all were broken

And he three man I admire most the Father,

Son an the holy Ghost

They caught the last train for the coast

The day the music died.

And they were singin' bye bye

** Repeat