AMERICAN PIE SONG AND STORY

WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND "AMERICAN PIE" SONG?

FIRST, SOME EXERCISES ABOUT THE SONG

American Pie

Madonna

 

      CROSS OUT THE EXTRA WORDS

A very long, long time ago

I can still today remember

How that lovely music used to make me smile

And I didn’t knew if I had my chance

I could make those people dance happily

And maybe they'd be happy for a short while

      CROSS OUT WHAT’S WRONG

Did you WRITE/WROTE the book of love

And ARE/DO  you have faith in God above

If the BibleTELLS/TELL you so?

Now do you BELIEVE/BELIEVED  in rock and roll?

CAN’T/CAN  music save your mortal soul?

And can you teach me how to DANCING/DANCE  real slow?

      ORDER THE LINES

'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym  (      )

But I knew I was out of luck  (      )

I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck        (      )

Man, I dig those rhythm and blues  (      )

With a pink carnation and a pickup truck    (      )

The day the music died       (      )

Well, I know that you're in love with him    (      )

You both kicked off your shoes      (      )

      FILL IN THE BLANKS

CHORUS

I ____________________________ (= BEGAN) singin’

Bye, bye Miss ____________________________  (= FROM THE USA) Pie

Drove my Chevy to the levee

But the levee was ____________________________ (= NOT WET)

Them good ol' ____________________________  (= YOUNG MEN) were drinking whiskey and rye

Singin' this'll be the ____________________________  (= NOT NIGHT) that I die

This'll be the day that I ____________________________(= NOT LIVING)

      WHERE ARE THE VERBS?

ASKED  SMILED  TURNED  WENT  HEARD  SAID MET

I ____________________________  a girl who sang the blues

And I ____________________________  her for some happy news

But she just ____________________________  and __________________________ away

Then I ____________________________  down to the sacred store

Where I’d ____________________________  the music years before

But the man there ____________________________  the music wouldn’t play

      RHYMING WORDS

SPOKEN  GHOST  COAST  SCREAMED  BROKEN  DREAMED MOST

Well now in the streets the children ___________________________

The lovers cried and the poets ____________________________

But not a word was ____________________________

The church bells all were ____________________________

And the three men I admire ____________________________

The Father, Son, and the Holy ____________________________

They caught the last train for the ____________________________

The day the music died

We started singing

CHORUS

SEE THE STORY AND LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THIS CLASSIC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(song)

ORIGINAL SONG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U