Page Ranking Information

This song has been given the rank Silver. This means that all important facts about this song are known and at least one person is watching it, but the lyrics need verification. To upgrade this song to Gold, you should listen to it (on your own, via GoEar or on YouTube) and double-check the lyrics. After you do this, insert the {{Cert}} template below the {{Watcher}} template. Read all about page ranking, the templates, categories and styles at Lyricwiki:Page ranking. Service Link Status Album status is YouTube status is GoEar status is Language status is Amazon status is iTunes status is Wikipedia status is Credits status is The following users have declared themselves watchers of this page: Trainman These lyrics have been certified by: Trainman Song played while reading the lyrics. — 01:41, October 25, 2009 (UTC) These lyrics have been certified by: Redrkr Song played while reading the lyrics. — Redrkr 23:38, April 23, 2012 (UTC)

Contents 1 Question

QuestionEdit

A recent edit changed all "whiskey and rye" passages to "whiskey in rye". The editor gave this explanation in the edit summary: "changed "whiskey and rye" to "whiskey in rye" because analysis of the song shows that McLean drank whiskey with his friends in a nearby town called rie. or rye. cant remeber. peace out. :)". Can anyone confirm this? I always thought it way "whiskey and rye". --WillMak050389 22:21, 17 January 2008 (EST)

It's "whiskey and rye". Reference: Wikipedia or here, among others. The problem is that this site poses that the lyrics might actually be "whiskey in Rye." This, however, is conjecture.    Kiefer    talk    contribs    admin   03:22, 18 January 2008 (EST)

I changed it back, because even if he was referring to a town called Rye, the lyrics are not meant to be taken literally--it would be a play on words, if anything. For the same reasons, I changed "the Levy" (which supposedly refers to a bar of the same name) to "the levee". -- LastUserNameEver 10:45, 28 January 2008 (EST)