Everybody Loves Me Baby lyrics

Everybody Loves Me Baby
Don McLean

From his `American Pie` LP
This song was not released as a single

: One, two, three, four!

Fortune has me well in hand, armies `wait my command
My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand
The angels guide my ev`ry prayer, my enemies are sick or dead
But all the victories I`ve led haven`t brought you to my bed

CHORUS:
You see, everybody loves me, baby, what`s the matter with you?
Won`tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Now the purest race I`ve bred to be to live in my democracy
And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby
And my face on ev`ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved
My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved

CHORUS:
You see, everybody loves me, baby, what`s the matter with you?
Won`tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Now, no man is beyond my claim when land is seized in the people`s name
By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I`m not to blame!
Why, you can`t blame me, I`m Heaven`s child, I`m the second son of Mary mild
And I`m twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn`t mind, why, he just smiled

Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and the sky turns blue
I`m held in very great value by everyone I meet but you
`cause I`ve used my talents as I could, I`ve done some bad, I`ve done some good
I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c`mon and treat me like you should!

Because everybody loves me, baby, what`s the matter with you?
Won`tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Everybody loves me, baby, what`s the matter with you?
Won`tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Yeah, everybody loves me, baby, what`s the matter with you?
Won`tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?
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