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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Don McLean

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Don McLean
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 2
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New Rochelle
New York
Donald McLean III
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Pie
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Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.
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In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
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Some believe in Jesus, they don't act like they do. Some believe in Mohammed, I don't believe that's true. Cause they do believe in money, and gold is what it's for, all the gold can't buy no peace of mind in a world that don't believe in nothing anymore.
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Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.
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But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.
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I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
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I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.
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Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
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The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
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Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land.
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I like to bring my audience on a journey during my 90 minute concert. I will tell stories every few songs about the creation of a tune etc. and it gives the listener a glimpse inside my songs and then as you get to the last half hour you pick up the pace and work harder and get more into the show. It's all about stagecraft.
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Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.
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I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
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I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
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I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.
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Bad news on the doorstepI couldn’t take one more step
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Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.
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And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
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Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
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