<div>Didn't McLean also write and perform a song about a horse called "Wildfire" in about 1976 or so? I hated that song even more than I hated "American Pie".</div>
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<div>Yes, I wonder too, but not really all that much. McLean was (is) an excellent songwriter and performer, with a wide range thematically, stylistically, and vocally. He liked not ever having to work again after American Pie, but it probably prejudiced a lot of people towards him. By the way, I'll be playing this song on News from Neptune, radio version, Saturday at 10 on WEFT.<br>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM, David Green <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">davegreen84@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<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>
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