DW>> , and it's full of nasty subtle and not so subtle digs about
 DW>> just anyone who was anything in the early 70s.

 BL> In needs translation... who are the father, son, and holy
 BL> ghost, for instance? Don Maclean tells a different story every
 BL> time.

 DW> I always was of the opinion that they were Buddy Holly, Jim
 DW> Croce jim Morrison or Jimmy Hendrix 

  Or Chuck Berry (the father who started it all), Elvis (the son, who
developed the Blues) and Buddy Holly who died.

 BL> Personally, I believe it means nothing... he just strung words
 BL> together.

 DW> some of it does.

  Then why does Dom Maclean tell it differently each time? I think it
meant something to him at the time he wrote it, but like all poetry it
can be read many ways and the first thought is lost. "Chevvy to the
levy" is just a meaningless rhyme, but it evokes a feeling of the
South and summer. This is what I mean by "stringing words together."
Riders on the Storm is the same... a simple thought expanded with the
help of heroin and marijuana into something close to poetry.

Regards,
Bob
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