Now for ten years we've been on our own and moss grows fat on a rollin' stone, but that's not how it used to be, when the jester sang for the King and Queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean and a voice that came from you and me. I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck with a pink carnation and a pickup truck, but I knew I was out of luck, the day the music died. You both kicked off your shoes, man I dig those rhythm and blues. And do you believe in rock n' 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. So bye, bye Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry and them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.ĭid you write the Book of Love and do you have faith in God above, if the Bible tells you so. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died.

But February made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver, bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. '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. The lyrics appear to be about a satanic communist take-over of America after a nuclear explosion has destroyed the ecosystem.

Upon looking up and reading the lyrics my suspicion was more than confirmed. Like most people in America and elsewhere in the English speaking world I've heard the refrain 'bye, bye Miss American pie' wailing into my eardrums a thousand times and never had a clue what its singer was talking about, nor, frankly, did I give a dam, having never heard of Don McLean before or after his more or less one-hit wonder.īut today I got a clue as to its meaning after reading a news story about Asian and Indian immigration into the United States that contained the following sentence: 'The Indian American Leadership Initiative is an organization that seeks to entice more Indian Americans into politics, the 'last slice of the American pie'.'Īs soon as I read those words the song 'American Pie' jumped into my head and it occurred to me that maybe what the song was about was the take-over of America by foreign elements. The destruction of the United States as a free nation.

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