American Pie-Prologue (Don McLean)

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A long,long time ago...
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I can still remember
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How that music used to make me smile.
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And I knew if I had my chance
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That I could make those people dance
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And maybe they’d be happy for a while.
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But february made me shiver
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With every paper I’d deliver.
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Bad news on the doorstep;
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I couldn’t take one more step.
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I can’t remember if I cried
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When I read about his widowed bride,
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Something touched me deep inside
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The day the music died.

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So bye-bye, miss american pie.
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Drove my chevy to the levee,
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But the levee was dry.
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Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
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Singin’, this’ll be the day that I die.
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This’ll be the day that I die.