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first-time guests. Learn more at Rancho LePuerta.com. Support for Forum comes from Broadway

SF, presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story. From three-time Tony-winning composer

Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and Lucille Frank, a new story. From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and

Lucille Frank, a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused

of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice,

and devotion. The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade

plays the Orphium Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th. Tickets on sale now at

Broadway, sF.com.

From KQED.

From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Michael KQED.

From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Michael Krasny.

We were singing bye-bye, Miss American Pie, drove my shabby to the levee, but the levy was dry,

them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rind singing, This will be the day that I die.

This will be the day that I die.

Don McLean's song has been called a masterpiece,

the greatest song ever written,

but the lyrics drive songwriter Michael Coppy nuts.

A levy can't go dry, and rye is a type of whiskey. It's a stumbling redundancy, he writes,

like eating eggs and egg yolks. Coppies book, Words and Music, is a manifesto for better song lyrics in which he skewers even the most lauded songwriters. And that's all next, right after this.

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