What did Don Maclean mean in the song, American Pie, with the lyric “…The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost… They took the last train for the coast…”? - Quora
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Don McLean's original America Pie manuscript sold at auction for $1.2m - finally revealing the meaning of iconic lyrics - Mirror Online
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