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- From: jennyg@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Well Paid in Name Only)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Nonsensical songs
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:42:11 -0500
- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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- In article <1993Jan20.230954.25860@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
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- >Recently, Gillian was going through some of her old records(*) and happened
- >across the Don McLain (?) album containing "American Pie".
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- Lifted without shame from Jim Ryan's _The_70's_Life_In_a_Dumb_Decade:
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- At Last!! You can have the last word in *ALL* your Don McLean-related
- arguments with _The_Oxford_Annotated_American_Pie
-
- Just a sample of the insights you'll gain:
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- McLean's verse: Our Interpretation:
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- Well, for ten years (1), we've (1) Ten years: McLean wrote his
- been on our own, and moss (2) classic in 1970 - ten soul-searching
- grows fat on a rolling stone (3) years after the NYC bus drivers' strike
- but that's not how it used to of 1960.
- be (4) (2) Moss: a veiled reference to Moss
- Hart, beloved dramatist of the American
- When the jester (5) sang for musical stage
- the King (6) and queen (7) in (3) A reference to Roland Stone, drama
- a coat he borrowed from James critic to whom Hart owed much of his
- Dean (8) and a voice that came reputation in Cincinnati
- from you and me (4) McLean seems to be saying that's
- not how it used to be.
- (5) Harold Stassen, whose repeated bids
- for the Republican presidential nomina-
- tion made him a figure of fun.
- (6) Dwight D. Eisenhower, elder states-
- man of the Republican party.
- (7) Mamie Eisenhower
- (8) Reference unknown. Possibly McLean
- meant Jmmy Dean, country music star and
- eventual sausage magnate.
-
-
- Hope this answers all your questions....
-
- Jenny "And I still have my bell bottoms, wedgies, and two pairs of hot
- sox" Gutbezahl
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