Ka taƙaita labarin:  (CNN) "Tun da daɗewa, tun da daɗewa"... Waɗannan kalmomi guda biyar, idan aka furta ko aka rera, sai su sa mutanen da suka haife su a lokacin da aka haifi jariri nan da nan su tuna da waƙar Don McLean mai suna "American Pie". Yana da wuya a yi imani da cewa ya ban mamaki 81⁄2 minti almara, wanda miliyoyin Amirkawa san da zuciya, shi ne 44 shekara da haihuwa. Duk wani nau'i na tarihin da ke gudana a cikin wannan waƙar da ba ta da lokaci, an yi amfani da shi da kyau tare da waƙar da ba za a iya mantawa da ita ba, wadda ta fara da "Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie". Babu wata hanyar da za a iya rarraba "American Pie" na McLean don haɗuwa da waƙoƙin zamani da waƙoƙin gargajiya, waƙoƙin giya da kuma dutsen fasaha. A ranar Talata, Christie's ya sayar da rubutun hannu mai shafi 16 na kalmomin waƙar don dala miliyan 1.2 ga mai siye da ba a ambata sunansa ba. McLean wani jarida ne lokacin da, a ranar 3 ga Fabrairu, 1959, ya ga cewa Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens da JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson ya mutu cikin hatsarin jirgin sama a Clear Lake, Iowa. "Washegari na tafi makaranta cikin mamaki kuma ka san abin da ya faru?" McLean ya tuna. "Ba wanda ya damu. Rock 'n' roll a waccan zamanin ya kasance kamar hula hoops kuma Buddy bai sami babban nasara ba a cikin jadawalin tun '57. " Ta hanyar rubuta "American Pie", McLean ya tabbatar da cewa tunawa da waɗannan manyan mawaƙa suna rayuwa har abada. Bayan da ya yi rikodin kundi na farko, "Tapestry", a 1969, a Berkeley, California, a lokacin da dalibai suka yi tawaye, McLean, ɗan asalin New Yorker, ya zama wani nau'i na yanayi don abin da ya kira "ƙarni da aka rasa a sararin samaniya". Lokacin da aka saki waƙar al'adu "American Pie" a watan Nuwamba na 1971, ya maye gurbin Bob Dylan "The Times They Are A Changin" a matsayin Almanac na mutane na sabon shekaru goma. Yana da muhimmanci a yi tunanin "American Pie" kamar yadda mutum zai yi tunanin Henry Longfellow's "Evangeline" ko Johnny Mercer's "Moon River" - muhimmiyar waka ta Americana da ke fitowa daga tunawa da damuwa, blues valentine, da kuma zanga-zangar matasa a cikin ɗaya. Akwai sihiri a cikin kiɗa da kalmomin "American Pie", don kalmomin McLean da waƙoƙin murya sun tsara mafarki na sararin samaniya, kamar waɗanda Jack Kerouac yayi ƙoƙarin yin amfani da shi a cikin...
An sayar da rubutun kalmomin "American Pie" ga mai siye da ba a san sunansa ba na dala miliyan 1.2. Douglas Brinkley: Waƙar, talisman don shekarunta, tana kawo farin ciki ga mutane bayan shekaru 44.