<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>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:</DIV>
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<DIV>Fortune has me well in hand, armies 'wait at my command<BR>My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand<BR>The angels guide my ev'ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead<BR>But all the victories I've led haven't brought you to my bed<BR><BR>CHORUS:<BR>You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?<BR><BR>Now the purest race I've bred for thee to live in my democracy<BR>And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby<BR>And my face on ev'ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved<BR>My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved<BR><BR>CHORUS:<BR>You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?<BR><BR>Now, no land is beyond my claim when land is seized in the people's name<BR>By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I'm not to blame!<BR>Why, you can't blame me, I'm
Heaven's child, I'm the second son of Mary mild<BR>And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn't mind, why, he just smiled<BR><BR>Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and the sky turns blue<BR>I'm held in very great value by everyone I meet but you<BR>'cause I've used my talents as I could, I've done some bad, I've done some good<BR>I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c'mon and treat me like you should!<BR><BR>Because everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>tell me what did I do to offend you? <whoo, yeah!><BR><BR>Everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>tell me what did I do to offend you?<BR><BR>Yeah, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?<BR>tell me what did I do to offend you?<BR></DIV></div><br>
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