Click The Green Flag. Wait for the recording to start. It will take a second ENJOY! Background Info: The song is about February 3, 1959, better known as "The Day The Music Died" which is when Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens (Who were nicknamed the Music) died in a plane crash. Mclean refers to this not only with the lyrics "The Day The Music Died" but also when he says "But February made me shiver" as the crash happened in February or the verse, "Now for ten years we've been on our own" referring to 1970, when he song was made. As the crash was in 1959, 1970 would have been just over 10 years.
