Subj : Re: ?
To   : Sparky
From : DustCouncil
Date : Mon Jun 14 2021 17:30:18

I have a serious quibble with American Pie and it has to do with the
redundant and bizarre:

"Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye..."

Which is like saying "Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and bourbon..."

or

"Them good old boys were drinking soda and Pepsi."

There is, apparently, a rogue theory in which he is actually singing "whiskey
in Rye," as in Rye, New York, but as ever, the anarchists out there are
trying to tear down all manner of reason and decorum in proffering it.

This is the sort of lyric the execrable Steve Miller would have written,
given that he had the gall to write lyrics like:

Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is

only to rhyme it with taxes two lines later.

That is PURE NERVE, Miller.  PURE NERVE.

That song has other problems such as verb tense.  You have to be wealthy to
get away with this grammatical abomination:

They headed down old El Paso
That's where they ran into a great big hassle <- !@#$%^$, Steve.  Seriously. 
!@#$%^$!!!!!!
Billy Joe shot a man while robbing his castle

AND THEN THIS

Bobbie Sue took the money and run

SHE RAN, STEVE.  SHE RAN, YOU CANNOT TOOK THE MONEY AND RUN IN THE PAST TENSE.

WHISKEY and RYE indeed.  You just know there was a summit.  A Steve Miller
and Don McLean wherein Steve Miller, destroyer of all things good and pure
and holy, tainted the song with the "whiskey and Rye bit."

I AM CROSS WITH BOTH OF THEM

(not really)

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