[Peace-discuss] Everybody Loves Me Baby

[Stuart Levy]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:22:06PM -0500, John W. wrote:
> 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".

I didn't care for that one either -- I can enjoy sentimentality but
there's a limit -- but if it's the sappy song I think you mean, it's from
Michael Martin Murphey and Larry Cansler (says the Net), instead of McLean.
 
 
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:20 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >  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.
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *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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