the day the music died
The Day the Music Died The beginning of the song starts with Don Mclean quietly singing with sadness in his voice. he sings about how the music would make him smile, and he misses the music of his past that could make people dance. as he goes on he talks about that February day when he was delivering papers and saw that Buddy Holly had died. sadness overcame him thinking about Buddy, Buddy’s widow and the profound effect Buddy, Richie Valens, and Big Bopper had on him, who also died in the plane crash that killed Buddy. we see in the chorus how McLean misses the 50’s, but in the other verses he also talkes about events of the 60’s. in the chorus McLean says “bye bye miss american pie”. he is either talking about his girlfriend at the time who was in the miss america pageant ,or he is talking about the american dream which he believes has changed since the 50’s. it sounds like he thinks the american dream has changed up to 1971. the chorus goes on saying “drove my chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry singing this will be the day that i die.” which is McLean referring to Buddy Holly, because Buddy had a song called “That’ll be the day that i die” and a line in the songs chorus is “That’ll be the day that i die.” that line along with others are patterns of referring to Mcleans beloved song writer Buddy. in the second verse talks a lot about how the times and music is changing to