[Peace-discuss] Everybody Loves Me Baby

[John W.]

Wow!  I've always hated Don McLean's music, never came across this song.
Who knew that he was right up there as a songwriter with Bob Dylan?  I
wonder why this one didn't become more popular with the anti-war crowd?



On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:



>  Don McLean wrote this song in 1971, the same year he wrote the obviously
> more popular but not nearly as good "American Pie." The satirical allegory
> is intended:
>
>
> Fortune has me well in hand, armies 'wait at my command
> My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand
> The angels guide my ev'ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead
> But all the victories I've led haven't brought you to my bed
>
> CHORUS:
> You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
> Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?
>
> Now the purest race I've bred for thee to live in my democracy
> And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby
> And my face on ev'ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved
> My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved
>
> CHORUS:
> You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
> Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?
>
> Now, no land is beyond my claim when land is seized in the people's name
> By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I'm not to blame!
> Why, you can't blame me, I'm Heaven's child, I'm the second son of Mary
> mild
> And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn't mind, why, he just
> smiled
>
> Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and
> the sky turns blue
> I'm held in very great value by everyone I meet but you
> 'cause I've used my talents as I could, I've done some bad, I've done some
> good
> I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c'mon and treat me
> like you should!
>
> Because everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
> tell me what did I do to offend you? <whoo, yeah!>
>
> Everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
> tell me what did I do to offend you?
>
> Yeah, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
> tell me what did I do to offend you?
>
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