Posted on 08/11/2017 11:17:33 AM PDT by Lorianne
Is there a better antiwar pop song than “Galveston,” which Jimmy Webb wrote and Glen Campbell sang in the Vietnam-hued year of 1969? Therein, a young soldier daydreams of his Texas home by the Gulf and the girl he left behind. He describes the things he misses—“seawaves crashing,” “seabirds flying in the sun”—and confesses, “I am so afraid of dying” without seeing girl or Galveston again.
There is not a single note of preachiness or abstraction in the song. Yet in elevating home over foreign crusades, “Galveston” borders on sedition. It really ought to be banned under the Patriot Act. Glen’s voice was rough, and despite a stage ringed with monitors he fumbled lyrics. But his fingers remembered the chords, and the filial cast of his band, which included two sons and a daughter (all from his fourth wife), seemed a real comfort to a man who in his most lucid moments must see premonitions of blackness and blankness. When his daughter good-naturedly interrupted Campbell as he started to play a song he’d finished playing a minute earlier, he grinned and said, “That’s why I brought my kids up good.”
After barely more than an hour, Campbell closed the concert with “A Better Place,” a simple and lovely song he wrote for his final album. Backed by his children, he sang:
Some days I’m so confused, Lord My past gets in my way I need the ones I love, Lord More and more each day
Glen Campbell ended his last song with a promise that “A better place awaits/You’ll see.” Then his daughter took him by the hand and led him from the stage, into the darkness.
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They could have redesigned the M1 carbine action to be select fire and vented the barrel foregrip assembly.
There is such a version. I had one in SVN. Had to tweak the disconnector to go full auto, not designed too well, The selector switch was right there on the left side of the receiver between wood and metal.
With that pissant round, it needed all the help it could get. Still a pipsqueak pistol round.
"This is my rifle, and this is my gun..."
For the record, “Galveston” was written about the Spanish-American War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGFx_Y8r9TQ Queue up to about 7:03.
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