Last verse of the immortal “American Pie”:
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
And I went down to the sacred store
where I’d heard the music, years before
But the man there
said the music
wouldn’t play
And in the streets the children screamed
the lovers cried and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
the church bells all were broken
And 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.
Question: is this referring to the suppression of the traditional latin mass?
It’s hard for us to imagine it could be referring to anything else.
Lawyers on Strike 
I doubt it. I think the song’s author was feeling abandoned by God when a major music artist he admired died shortly before he wrote this song.
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It was actually inspired by the death of Buddy Holly. https://www.songfacts.com/facts/don-mclean/american-pie
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There’s no doubt the song was about Buddy Holly. But it was also about the Rolling Stones and other stuff. And that last verse, I think, is in fact a reference to the change in the mass that also occurred in the 1960’s. But the author hasn’t said that. Thus the open letter post!
Thanks for the comments, gentlemen!
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