“Bye-bye, Miss American Pie.” – Don McLean
“This’ll be the day that I die.” – Don McLean
“Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry.” – Don McLean
“Did you write the Book of Love?” – Don McLean
“Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die.” – Don McLean
“Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey ‘n rye, singin’ ‘this’ll be the day that I die’.” – Don McLean
“The three men I admire most, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, they caught the last train for the coast the day the music died.” – Don McLean
“Did you have faith in God above, if the Bible tells you so?” – Don McLean
“Can music save your mortal soul?” – Don McLean
“I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away.” – Don McLean
“And moss grows fat on a rolling stone, but that’s not how it used to be.” – Don McLean
“I was a lonely teenage broncin’ buck with a pink carnation and a pickup truck.” – Don McLean QUOTES ABOUT FRIENDS AND SISTERS
“But the players tried to take the field; the marching band refused to yield.” – Don McLean
“Oh, and as I watched him on the stage, my hands were clenched in fists of rage.” – Don McLean
“I can’t remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside the day the music died.” – Don McLean
“Helter skelter in a summer swelter.” – Don McLean
“I’d love to turn you on.” – The Beatles, “A Day in the Life”
(referenced in American Pie)
“But February made me shiver with every paper I’d deliver.” – Don McLean
“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack Flash sat on a candlestick.” – Don McLean
“No angel born in Hell could break that Satan’s spell.” – Don McLean
“I started singing bye-bye, Miss American Pie.” – Don McLean
“So bye-bye, Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry.” – Don McLean