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Thread #93516 Message #1801689
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
04-Aug-06 - 03:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: American Pie (Don McLean)
Subject: RE: American Pie
Don McLean, who worked with Seeger in trying to get the Hudson River cleaned up and campaigned for other rivers certainly knew what a levee was. He was searching for a rhyme. And 'dry' somehow fits the feeling when the music died.
I remember riding in an old car (make not remembered but it had a rumble seat) to the levee in college days, when I visited friends in LA, but I also would have sung about a Chevy to get the rhyme. Lots happened on the levees- too long ago and long before Holly in my case.