[Peace-discuss] Everybody Loves Me Baby

[David Green]

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.




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From: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 6:56:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Everybody Loves Me Baby


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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