Don McLean - Bronco Bill's Lament

A real favourite from the 'Don McLean' album.

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Music

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• Don
• McLean
• Bronco
• Bill's
• Lament

[kadaspots]

Listen to the words to this song and you will learn about your life....amazing....!!

[californium99]

i moved my lips to someone else's voice.....fuckin genious

[emofolkie]

Such a fine song. I especially like the line 'oh God how I worked my youth away', and I love how Don sang this song in the studio recording, making himself sound like an old man. Only Don could write and sing a song like this so perfectly. Thank you, Don McLean, for this beauty!

[harperjohnlive]

"I considered it a paean or a tip of the hat to the "B" Western stars and T.V. Western stars who got royally shafted by the various Hollywood studios. It is that but it's sooooo much more." says poster lanetemple.

Yep, I borrowed the "voyeurs and lawyers" phrase (for the full version of the song THE BOMBER) ...different context, but same sentiment, this for the outcast WW2 hero Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris, ORS ... (order of the royal shaft) .

Don couldn't write a dumb song if he tried!

[davidlenander]

thanks, I always loved this song, and some of the others from that album--is it even available, I think I looked for it a while back. I also loved "O My, what a shame" and the one about the horse for sale. Overall, the album was kind of grim and a downer--that's always been my guess as to what made people lose interest.  The next two albums were much happier, but didn't sell so well. Except he was a star in England, I guess.

[bobandrayfan1]

@bobbranson The original American Pie inner sleeve featured a poem written by McLean about William Boyd aka Hop-Along Cassidy along with a picture of Boyd in full Hop-Along regalia. This sleeve was removed within a year of the album's release. The words to this poem appear on a plaque at the hospital where Boyd died.

[bobandrayfan1]

@bobbranson He was also good friends with Hop-Along Cassidy. so perhaps it's about him too. Hoppy didn't want photos of himself as an old man seen anywhere so he refused to have pictures taken as he got older. "this photograph was taken in my prime..."

[lanetemple]

@ahitler1000...YES!....I agree with you ....Don Mc Lean was perfection especially when he was throwing high hard one in the 1970' s and 80. A brilliant talent.



[ahitler1000]

@lanetemple yes yes , yes, I think he, s a gift from God , myself, . . .perfection only comes once in a great while, and this man is just that, . . .

[wer1ther]

perfect in every sense.

[SugarCrisp11]

Just awesome!