The Legend of Andrew McCrew (Solo live) Don McLean

[Intro, spoken]
Here's a weird song about a mummy
It's actually a true story about a man who fell of the train in Dallas Texas
Black man, had one leg, cut the other leg off and died
And uh, so he was mummified
They did that back in 1913 when it happened
And they waited for relatives to come and claim him
But nobody came
And a carnival passed through, and they claimed him
And he toured with the carnival for about 35 years posthumously
It's a true story
So, he was buried in 1973
And I read a little article about him
And I wrote this song
And then a year later whеn the song came out
Uh, a guy steppеd forward and donated a headstone to Andrew McCrew
And so, the fourth verse of this song was carved in granite
And is now at his head
And he became sort of a legendary figure in the black community in Dallas, Texas
Symbolic of the man, the black man who couldn't be killed
And there's a whole other stuff, um about it
Which I can't go into now, it's too complicated
But the song tells the story
And the chorus is easy
If you feel like singing about a mummy, just join right in