Don McLean - The Ballad of George Floyd Lyric Video
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2024
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Don McLean is a Grammy award honoree, a Songwriter Hall of Fame member, a BBC Lifetime Achievement award recipient, and his smash hit “American Pie” resides in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry and was named by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) a top 5 song of the 20th Century. A New York native, Don McLean is one of the most revered and respected songwriters in American history. Don McLean’s incredible legacy spans music from virtually every genre including blues, country, folk and of course, pop. In addition to entertaining tens of millions of fans for six decades, Don McLean has influenced a variety of icons in the music world including such notables as George Michael, Madonna, Garth Brooks, Tupac Shakur and Elvis among many others. Don McLean continues to write and tour extensively.
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I love Don Mclean, but this is the worst song I've ever heard.
With the possible exception of Imagine, another Commie ballad.
Agree it's a shame a man who wrote such wonderful music came up with a dirge about a career criminal who took his own life via the big fentanyl OD. CHAUVIN IS INNOCENT.
poor don maclean....from vincent to george floyd.....what a sad state of affairs
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Psalm 15
Psalm 22-26
Ezekiel 33:3-9
Can we get a ballad about the pregnant woman george beat up and strong arm robbed at gunpoint? Or is he the victim in that scenario too?
Such silly fantasies from such a silly troll.
@@pulse9218 People are nuts. I can name good men who died in front of me in Iraq that Noone cares about but let's write a song for George floydd.
@@realitywave Silly troll has you ratioed 20 to 1. Oof.
@@haconk so triggered! Pathetic! 🤣 try to calm down. You will be ok.
@@haconk ok.... at least every one of them volunteered. And the war was a tremendous crime. A crime they willingly joined.
Glorifying criminals now don?
From Vincent Van Gogh, to this? Shame.
Derek Chauvin is the criminal, remember?
He was a small time criminal who died of his own excess.
And committed crimes with victims....the victims don't get a song.
He was murdered in broad daylight by a racist Trump loving cop. Why are you shitting on a murder victim?
He shouted “Ah caint breeve” from the top of his lungs.
not at the top of his lungs, remember, he was suffocating. When you suffocate, your throat is a bit blocked off.
@@russianfederationyoutube He used this tactic many times in the past. Once while sitting alone in the back of a police car. Calling for his mother is another common one he used. There are youtube videos with recordings of all of his arrests. He did the same thing in all of them. It was his scam.
@@scotttillman01 he wasn’t suffocated in all of those situations. this one is the most important. He was suffocated, he couldn’t scream
@@russianfederationyoutube Fentanyl will do that to a person.
Typical sickening racist comment.
Welp, this must be The Day the Music Died.
Indeed!!
Best comment ever.
BEST comment award
amazingly witty! 😆
Agreed
We live in a south park episode
I see there are tickets for Don McLean shows that are on sale now. If he thinks this song is going to help sell those tickets then he's as out of touch as this song makes him seem. On the other hand, it is the most hilarious song I've heard in a long time.
It certainly is one of the dumbest.
Where’s the line about being full of drugs and robbing pregnant women ?
is this parody?
I grew up listening to Don McLean.. but I never thought he was a liberal-woke-democrat all along. This song glorifies a thug. Man, what happened to McLean! One of the worst songs ever. McLean's effort to be relevant? He don't need to. He's already a legend. Can't listen to this song. It is phony.
this cannot be real?
Wow....what a shame Don
What a disappointment you have become Don McLean ... you need to wake up
His 'mother', was actually his girlfriend's 'nick name', as she relates to an interviewer in the documentary, 'The Fall of Minneapolis'... Love Don, but he should have done some research before recording this song... ua-cam.com/video/eFPi3EigjFA/v-deo.html
We're all safer now.
yeah he was a criminal
Apparently you think that holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly isn’t menacing or a threat? Unfreakinbelievable!
Don, if you delete this we promise we'll never tell anyone and will pretend this didn't happen
Lol! You beat to this comment. Truth though..a don "phony" mclean song
This is another example of a rich (he's worth over $50 million) privileged person thinking they understand common people. He has no clue.
bro fell off so hard with this one
George Flyod has been real quiet since this dropped...
LMAO!!!!!
He's been clean and sober 4 yrs now
Giving Weird Al a real run for his money.
Cringeworthy on all levels.
What happened to American pie 💀💀💀😭😭😭
Maybe if i complied i be Alive
Bad move Don Mclean!
Are you kidding me. I hope don McLean doesn't think that song is going to be as great as American pie. What was he thinking.. I think that song sucked. And not because who it was about.. just the way he did that whole song.
Well that sucks, hard.
This criminal was a menace to society and he's trying to portray him as a martyr in a poorly written song. I used to admire Don's songs but I guess the song writing talent and the deep life messages in his songs is gone. Such a sad day.
Are you hacked?
All I could think
This can't be real, right? Ha.
@@farejare4921 It's like if Weird Al Yankovic wrote a parody of a protest song
I remember smoking crack with him and also he stole me a 20 ugh
Free Chauvin
He called for his mother. Because he didnt know his father.
He called for his mother because he doesn't know God.....
Yes god is my father@@tonypacheco2318
Y'all hate people much? Not one ounce of compassion, how cold we have become America
How about a ballad about Ashley Babbit being shot but a black Capital police officer? You got it all backwards pal..
This is top shelf comedy mate. Well done, lmao
Free Derek Chauvin ✊🏻
Who is that ?
@@Ah-Solthe Innocent cop who was wrongfully convicted for the suicide of george floyd
Derek who???? Lmao
Did you write this in celebration of his 4th anniversary being clean from drugs? Very thoughtfull.
I respect you as a songwriter and artist. But Don, seriously . . I would delete this song on youtube. It was a mistake. We all make mistakes. But this is doozie. If everyone cast a vote on this song . . .
Why was he calling for his mother? Trying to find out when when he starts college?
BOYCOTT DON MCLEAN
way to write a work of shit.
I'll never listen to another Don McLean song again I didn't realize he was really that stupid
I loved Castles in the Air
what a joke....
Just lost all respect for don mclean😢
Not your best Don, what were you thinking. This stains your canon of work.
Im tired of people feeling sorry for this thug
That's sad.
@@loriganey3759 what's sad? A guy who was a bad man that people want to make a hero? Sad he didn't pay for the crimes he did into others? Which part is sad?
What's sad is we have lost humanity. It's not the polices job to be judge jury and executioner...do I think he should be celebrated for not being a law abiding person...no but I also believe in the rule of law and that's what this song is about, people having humanity. The police are not gods and do not have the right to act as such. This is not about glorifying a criminal it is about humanity for a person who lost his life through what the courts have found to be willful misconduct of a police officer
@@loriganey3759 let me ask a question do you stand up also for whites who are innocently killed by police or do you just pick and choose? He had drugs he checked on, dont blame the police for doing their jobs but yes there are rogue cops but not in this case. Watch THE FALL OF MINNEAPOLIS then you'll know what really happened
@@loriganey3759It was an overdose. Coroner said it himself. He had a bunch of fent on him, and consumed it all before getting arrested. That’s why he “couldn’t breathe” long before he was even being held down. It’s a symptom of a fent OD.
I’m sorry you were lied to, and I’m sorry you believed the lie.
Lynchyrd Clynchyrd already did the true Ballad of George Floyd
Floyd's death was terrible, but he was by no means a hero. Let's not pretend he was.
If you came to this video, to comment that about the torturous death of a man by a white supremacist cop, you're definitely a racist yourself..
McLean isn’t calling him a hero. He was a murder victim.
George Floyd OD'd
Wtf is the point of this comment?
@@djsharp5753 Honoring a career criminal is pointless.
I can't believe this.
I like american pie more than this song😂❤ ...
O M G Mama was a nick name of one of his ex girl friends. He died of a fentanyl over dose not a nee to his neck. He was in the hospital one before that for fentanyl over dose.
He should’ve been put into some sort of therapy for his addiction, or at most a prison. He deserved a second chance at life. No drug addict deserves death, but therapy to help, or being put in jail to learn from past mistakes. But it’s a huge stretch that he “coincidentally” died of his meth, opioid, and fentanyl abuse at the same time he was suffocated, that’s a little *too* coincidental. So in my opinion, both Derek and Floyd were wrong in the case that Floyd had a fentanyl and Meth addiction and Derek suffocated him. I by no means support BLM after they bought mansions with the funds instead of funding black education, neighborhoods, and other things. And I’m saying that drug addicts deserve a second chance at life because addiction is where I draw the line. Murderers and insane people don’t deserve a second chance. In the case of Derek, I think he just made a stupid decision instead of putting Floyd in handcuffs.
There was a jury trial, with many expert witnesses. Not one of them says he died from a drug overdose.
@@russianfederationyoutube check the toxicology report, fent OD
Right, his addiction had nothing to do with him being Murdered, Tf Aubrey too, Derek got what was coming and the creeps that chased Aubrey down and shot him, Modern Day mofo lynching is what you call it,
BLM💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽😊
Powerful message brother, a tear came to my eye and fell down to my neck, I then couldn't breathe and called for my mother, that experience lead me to resonate deeply with George Floyd.
How is this real?? 😂
LOS
Don McLean is so out of touch....glorifying criminals. Pathetic and the song sucks,.
Oh man….
What a great derelict song.
Wonder how many 👎 on this one
This is a weird .😒😶🫥🤢😔😌🙂↕️🙂↔️🫨🤥 is . Sad ....😢😢
What a way to use a medium such as music to focus on something so irrelevant to the context. Has anybody wondered if George was targeted to be the eventual reason for the riot ahead of time? Has anyone wondered if George was pushing counterfeit money which the local government was pushing themselves and therefore wanted him off the street? Who gave George the drugs that day? Who was he with last? What did his mother have anything to do with this context in his mind to be asking for her? But why would you write a song about a man who pointed a gun at a pregnant woman's stomach? There is a point where you have to draw a red line in how you frame something for people to listen to in terms of sympathy or empathy for their death. I draw the line at shit stain.
I like american pie more than that song, the another song is .weird 😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉😂😅😮😢🎉
Deserved respect??? What a crock..
😢 bad way to go out
High on drugs, I agree.
George floyd is a terrible person but people were sad about his death and I get it they were probably a lot of family members who loved but what about all the people he hurt and killed what about those people family what about the people who sacrificed there life for other people everyday George Floyd is a terrible person and deserves no respect.
I love you Don Mclean- people get flack for writing protest songs and I’m sure you always knew that- stay headstrong and keep doing whatever you want to do. You’ll always be untouchable.
It's actually a nice written song if you just see it as a piece of fiction
Way to end a career!
Don't do drugs
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Are you kidding me Don? Writing trash to glorify trash? I hope this is a joke!
Mouahahahah 😂🤣
If this is truly Don Mclean then I lost all respect for him, A song glorifying a career criminal who OD'd.
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
lol
What a weird person to prop up as a hero. Is the entirety of America lacking in basic education?
This man is so washed up. He’s just trying to make a dollar off the dead man that was not a hero.
Nah, not for me……
And to top it off, the song stinks.
The 'crime' he was suspected of was giving a store clerk a counterfeit $20 bill. Since when is that punishable by death?
This is a song about a black man, one of many, who died by the hands of the police. Anyone who tries to justify this by any means is in need of some kind of salvation.
Watch The Fall of Minneapolis your truth is in there. If you cant see the truth I feel sorry for you
@@smithandjones342 you are trying to justify murder
@@doobybrother21 He is a grease stain of Derek Chauvins knee
@@doobybrother21 it wasn't murder. You want to keep playing the victim? Did I say I justified it?keep playing the victim and race card, it will get you no where. Sounds like you really dont want to know the truth
@@smithandjones342 Chauvin was convicted on two counts of murder. I'm white but nice try.
What a joke of a song
Orphans of Wealth, Homeless Brother, Prime Time, just to name a few. Dons always spoken out against inequality and violence and the fact that y’all are only complaining now says a lot.
Great song, Mr. McLean! So glad you’re still making music.
Thanks to the legendary Don McLean
trying to be dylan with that hurricane garbage.
Hurricane was a head banger though 🔥🔥🔥
@@gadzookstv fiction both.
Thank you Mr McClean for continuing to put out songs of american protest. Disregard those unable to understand your purpose in this...we know that is exactly why you put this out. A lack of political discussion got us here today...they cannot hear anymore...
This is chronically bad.
Love you Don but damn. This is really woke and uncomfortable to listen to.
Now you have immortalized it in song. We need to never forget. Great sad song, Don.
It has a happy ending
Bad song, kind of weird song but good message
"Good message"
Lol
Lmao even
Don McLean's music is something I've always loved. This horrible song needs to go in the ground with that criminal. Don make better music or no music.
This is not as awful as khe song the Waterboys did about George Floyd, but Don Mclean is a legend of songwritting and I'm sure that he can do better while talking about the social problematics sorrounding this tragic event.
Thank you Don. George should never be forgotten
And how about HIS victims? Any sympathy for them? Maybe dont do drugs and become a thug🤔
So true,such a horrible scene especially when you see his lifeless body.He did not deserve what they did to him.May he rest in peace.I will never forget.Exellent Ballard.❤❤❤❤
@smithandjones342 you mean for previous crimes that he went through our legal system for
Yes he does
Free Derek Chauvin ✊🏻
Derek Chauvin is a murderer. Really? Do better.