Bwaaahaaaaa! “It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.”

[Surya Gayatri]

Don McLean has finally revealed the meaning behind his 1971 hit American Pie, one of the most enigmatic songs in pop history.

Mr McLean, 69, has always avoided answering questions about its meaning, other than to joke: “It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.”



Original manuscript of iconic song expected to fetch up to $1.5m at auction in New York and includes lost ending, describing how “the music was reborn”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11518734/Don-McLean-reveals-secrets-behind-American-Pie.html

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Good for you, Don! Bwaahaaaaa!

[F4lconF16]

1. And freshman English students will hate him forever. nt

[Surya Gayatri]

2. OMG, you mean they make students pore over his

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music to extract the 'MEANINGZ'?

[F4lconF16]

3. I was joking--it was always one of my favorite parts of the class.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. They used to make students pour over T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland

American Pie seems more interesting, IMHO.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. I'm with ya' there, dixiegrrrrl...

Although, let's face it, The Wasteland does have its merits.

It's just that it's been engraved in granite.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. Our freshman English teacher made us pour over "Vincent"

Yup.

She was awful. I knew she was a fraud when she said she hated "Glen Garry Glenross" because it was "all talk". Got chucked years later for using anti-semetic language towards a student.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Tomorrow's homework: A 500-word essay on the use of

the light metaphor in 'Vincent'.

Gag me with a spoon. What happened to the MUSIC?

That was the day it died.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. and I thought it was bad that my freshman English Teacher made us analyze

the lyrics to; Me and You and a Dog named Boo (was she fucking kidding me or what?)

[central scrutinizer]

8. What about the manuscript for "Louie, Louie"?

That's the one I'm waiting for

[Surya Gayatri]

9. You're showing your age...LOL!

The KINGSMEN - Louie Louie - 1963 - 45 RPM

[GeorgeGist]

11. Believe it or not ...

[kath]

12. PSA: the word several of you are looking for is "PORE", not "pour".

[Surya Gayatri]

13. Hanging head...and I'm a former English teacher, too.

Only excuse? I speak and write French part of the time, and often confuse 'pour' (for) in French and to pour in English.

The other option just wasn't in my line of sight!

Thanks!