Buddy Holly Poem
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NOT FADE AWAY
February second, nineteen fifty-nine
Clear Lake Iowa, The Surf Ballroom
The Winter Dance Party Tour rocks
over eleven hundred concert goers
Price of admission, one dollar and twenty-five centsOh say can you hear in this musically charged dance hall
the pounding beat of drums coalesce
with stomping feet on a dance floorFebruary third
A single-engine plane soars from Mason City Airport
Destination Fargo, North Dakota
Moorhead Armory Building AuditoriumFive and one-half miles from take off a visually absent horizon begats a change in course
A stubble field shorn of its harvested corn stalks becomes the gateway to the Endless UnknownPrice of admission, termination of life for Buddy, Ritchie, and J.P.
Oh say can you feel by the moonless night
A dream's end
Lovers unspoken goodbyes
The world's despairThe music survives and the three early rockers fire up
the next evolution of the people's musicRave on
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@carolghes
The day the music died… Don McLean dedicated the American Pie album to Buddy Holly. -
@carolghes Very well done!