This song is so beautiful, heartbreaking, and haunting...all at the same time. Nothing short of brilliant. Thank you for posting this quality version in the wake of Glen's passing. Rest In Peace Glen Campbell. You were a once in a generation talent.
I agree, Dan...I can put myself in that GI's place sitting in the jungle in Vietnam, cleaning his rifle, which is his lifeline, and thinking about his girl back home....that sentiment has happened since the beginning of war in different locations.....
As an old man now, and a Marine Vet, this song makes me sob for all the young men our corrupt and murderous ruling class sends to senseless, needless, wars .......... 😞 😞 😞
I’m with you punkin! My dad and brothers both marines, both committed suicide! I always remember this sing playing in my house. It makes me sob as well! Take care!
I'm a drafted, disabled, and Republic of Vietnam combat veteran '68. I remember this song very well in 1969. My girlfriend ditched me while I was in Vietnam. I had turned 21 in Vietnam. This is the very first time I've seen this Campbell video. I notice Campbell is wearing the old white style Army name tag. This song touched me deeply in 1969 and still does. Godspeed. R.I.P., JMJ to Campbell.
And don't forget the guy who wrote Galveston the great songwriter Jimmy Webb ... he wrote a number of those Glenn Campbell songs and also MacArthur's Park
A great song for the Vietnam era, It captured the heartbreak of the time. A protest song without really being a protest song or being preachy. Soldiers remembering home and wondering did love still wait for them.
Because you're human and know there was a controversial war at the time of this song. That sentiment had to be somewhere in the minds of so many draftees in Vietnam. It's heartbreaking to think of a 19 year-old, leaving behind his fiancé' and going to war, worried he may never see her again, and vice versa for his girl. Heartbreakingly beautiful song.
No kidding. I dreamed of Galveston last night (never been there) and had to get up and play it right away. Love that song - one of many memories of my youth.
@@denisesalles7248I went to Galveston about 17 years ago to get on a cruise ship and so I did a little exploring afterwards and it's a really cool place and some wonderful old beautiful architecture . What blew my mind was knowing that the worst Tragedy by numbers ever to happen in one small area in America happened in the early 1900s with the hurricane and there are documentaries about it . I think over 8,000 people perished 😢 in the Galveston area and that was when they had a much smaller population of course . I wonder what bought your thoughts to Galveston when you were dreaming .
Wow, I lived in Santa Fe(12 miles from Galveston) in the early 60s. That video was like a flashback, my family went there so often. I lived there when Hurricane Carla hit:(
I love this song's! I was a Marine in Vietnam then also. Semper Fi to all my Marine brothers from that time. I pray that all of us, of all branches, have survived well, and my heart goes out to those of us who struggle 🙏.
GOD BLESS him one of my older brothers was in Nam when this came out as well. this song and the LIghts of Alb(can;t spell the capital of New Mexico) by Billy Mize was the other as a reminder of that time
Yes! God bless your husband! God bless all who served there, the veterans, the ones who never came home,who paid the ultimate price. We owe a debt that cannot be repaid.
Hi everyone it’s me again. I love the music from my youth and young adulthood,it helped me and others forget about all the bad things going on at that time. We’ve forgotten what real music and talent sounds like, when it could make you remember first loves and loss, good times and bad and realize we’re going to make it through without hurting ourselves and each other😢
Worst year in my life--drafted into the Army at age 23--but the G.I. Bill gave me five years of college after working in an Army hospital in the States.
This came out in 1969, my high school grad year when I was a wee lad of 18 years-old. It never made me cry back then, but now 53 year later it certainly does! 😭 Does anyone know where all the decades have fled? 😢 God bless dear Glen Campbell, his entire family, and all who listen to this for years to come. 🙏💔 P.S. My little sis just spent Christmas with her son and two grandsons in Galveston! 🤗🥰
I was a senior in high school and graduated in 1969 too, but a few months shy of my 18th birthday. I'm a woman, so I wasn't subject to the draft, but it was something that was of huge concern to so many that I went to high school with, because we were working class folks and most of us didn't go right on to college - there wasn't money for that. Even then I thought this song was so beautiful and I "play" it regularly in my mind. Nobody sang it like Glen. Jimmy Webb was a genius, pure and simple, and the songs that he and Glen Campbell collaborated on are classics that I hope will live forever. "Wichita Lineman" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," along with "Galveston", OMGoddess! I've heard re-makes over the years of "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" but not of "Wichita Lineman" or "Galveston," which I think pays great credence to the fact that nobody sang those songs like Glen did and nobody poured such raw but perfect emotions into his music as Jimmy Webb.
Yes, she was 21 when i left Galveston. Now we would have been 75. She passed away last year. Glen Campbell has also passed. God please, I would have those times again.
That song growing up here in the 60s in the UK. Had to visit & experience it!! Done it in 2011. Bar driving through Houston ( on the wrong side of the road!!!!) Loved it.🏴🇺🇸
Glen, was the most underappreciated talent of the 60's and 70's....Glen and Johnny Cash were the premiere talents back in those days...both from the little state of Arkansas.
Just noticed, I made a comment on this beautiful GC song four years ago..I keep coming back to view/listen, just can,t help myself..(also "The Best of Glen Campbell" CD seems to permanently live in my car CD player!
I was 14 when this song was released. I was taken by its sadness about Vietnam and totally afraid my brother would be drafted. Glen Campbell was the best. I miss him.
Interestingly, this song was written not about Vietnam, but about the spanish-american war (hence the cannons etc). But it was released at the heart of the Vietnam war and quickly came to represent the longing those in Vietnam must have felt.
I WOULD LOVE TO GO TO GALVESTON BEACH & HEAR THIS SONG LOOKING BACK TO THIS TIME. EVERYTIME I HEAR THIS ON OUR LOCAL COASTAL CLASSIC RADIO I THINK OF A GIRL LOOKING OUT TO SEA WAITING THERE FOR WHOEVER TO COME BACK TO HER AND RUN DOWN THE BEACH..SO MUCH TIME HAS GONE BY ..RIP GC.
A masterful recording. Kudos to the great musicians of the world famous Wrecking Crew for bringing out all of the complexity and beauty of this song. Glen is playing the guitar solo and it's actually a six-string Danelectro bass loaned to him by another musician at the session, Carol Kaye. I can listen to the words and music of this song all day long.
I was 9 when this song came out..my name was Glenn also and got a guitar and tried to be like him..even styled my blonde hair the same..finally visited Galveston last year..RIP my friend.
My "Galveston" is not exactly a place that I left for service but a time, an era that existed over 50 years ago, people and things in a time that no longer exist, something that I can no longer physically revisit and I can only call back and cherish through memories.
I was 7 years old when this song came out and what comes to mind is my grandfather sitting in his recliner with a Jim Beam whiskey in one hand and a pipe full of tobacco in the other. And Grandma sitting in her chair next to him crocheting some blanket we were watching Hee-Haw and programs like that LOL
I'm now in my 50s when I was 10 my school had us singing Galveston I still remember and love that song. My mum has dementia and on our last two roadtrips I played Glen Campbell's Greatest Hits knowing she'd remember and love the songs she did ❤ thanks and RIP Glen.
I'd kill if I could move to Texas (not Austin or Houston) love those rural route state route names..'such and such FARM MARKET road'..awesome!, and knocks my socks off. Robert at 68 stuck in Arizona with VERY aged parents. Love govenor Abbott also..Dallas for a BIG city not that bad, unlike L.A. or Phoenix where I'm near, but there you go...
Absolutely a great example of how great music and video combine to create emotional magic that simultaneously makes the soul soar and dive as it moves along. A beautiful song that is complimented by a haunting beautifully shot video ... the faded colours and ghost like imaging adds to the atmosphere.
Agree. And also believe the video tips off this song is not confined to war in the 1800's, it was very much of the current times. But you were never going to get an even remotely anti-war song on country radio.
The first time I heard this song, I was floored, I had never even heard of Glen Campbell. From that time on I’ve loved every song by Glen, gorgeous man, beautiful voice. Got to see him at The Royal Albert Hall in London. Saw him again in later years, along with Kenny Rogers, at the Wembley conference centre.
[Verse 2] In Don Ho's 1968 recording, the second verse was: Galveston, oh Galveston Wonder if she could forget me I'd go home if they would let me Put down this gun And go to Galveston.[11] However, in both the singer Glen Campbell's version and in the writer Jimmy Webb’s own 1972 album Letters (and his later performances), this verse was: Galveston, oh Galveston I still hear your sea waves crashing While I watch the cannons flashing I clean my gun And dream of Galveston.[12]
I just wanted to say that I went searching for this song, because there was a woman commenter that saif that her boyfriend or husband had gone to Viet Nam and was lucky to come home to her, and that was 50 years ago; and that he was still there with her. I should have commented to her post but i didn't. God bless you and your husband. I consider myself lucky to be with the woman of my dreams. We have been together for over 20 years.
Always found this song really moving. Takes me back to being a 15 year old kid working in a tobacco warehouse in Manchester England. My future lay before me, I'm a long way down that path now
One of my favourite songs from the master himself. I sung along to this song as a kid and still love listening to it. RIP Glen thanks for the wonderful music you gave the world ❤️🌹❤️love from Kiwi land.
I just listened to and watched 'Yellow 'River' and 'Down By the River' - so many songs from the early 70's were superb - this one ('Galveston') one of the most haunting.
How his voice, music touched my heart and truly resonated in my soul.. Always have Loved Glen Campbell and this my first favourite written by Jimmy Webb, and Glen's guitar playing brillance and his Beautiful expressive voice brings the lyrics alive. He's entertaining the heavenly choir now, and I can never thank him enough for all the joy and happiness he's brought into my life over the past several decades. I continue to listen to his music CDs, albums and watch his DVDs so often. Sioux Falls is my favourite... I have it on DVD and CD love it!! And what a gorgeous man that just got better looking. God bless him♥️
Just listened to and watched 'Down By the River' (1972) and 'Yellow River' (Christie) .. these songs of the early 70's were great - this one, 'Galveston', especially beautiful . . .
. "Galveston" was the greatest anti-war song of that entire decade filled with protest songs.Unlike the sneering,cynical anti-war songs of that era "Galveston" was beautifully respectful of those who were fighting in Vietnam and highlighted the painful cost on a personal level. That's Jimmy Webb. He was in his early 20's when he wrote these incredibly rich lyrics,expressing wisdom far beyond his years. But that was the 60's.He labored among giants and stood shoulder to shoulder with the very best." Wichita Lineman" still chills me to the bone.
It wasn't anti-war in the slightest. It was about a lovesick and homesick young man dreaming of days not so far forgotten. It was about what a man, who saw his dream of being home...that it was about to become just that...a dream. It was about 'when your life flashed before your eyes' ...when his life was about to possibly be cut short-the loves of his life. But hey, what do I know?
"Galveston,oh Galveston.............I am so afraid of dying" The single most powerful anti-war line in any of the songs of that decade for which the Vietnam War was the catalyst.And every sweet memory the subject is reminiscing about is one more compelling reason he should be home in Galveston.....instead of in Vietnam. In virtually every other song inspired by that war those who served were depicted as naive,foolish or downright vicious. "Galveston" is the song that depicts them with respect as good young men who should not have been drafted and hurled into that cauldron of horror and yes, .....fear. That one line brought the reality home with more power than all the other songs combined. Those were hard,hard times and I remember it all. The nation was delirious with social change but that war was tearing us apart at the same time. By far the most intense decade I've experienced. No time period since has even come close.
WildVideoNYC you are absolutely right! I spent 1969 to 1972 on 2 different aircraft carriers and made 3 cruises to Vietnam! I hated it and all I wanted was to be back home! Years later, I wouldn't have taken anything for it because I saw a lot of the world during those 4 years! However, you're absolutely right! We had no business being in Vietnam and the sacrifice of all those great young men, and women too, was a crime!
WildvideoNYC.....actually, you need to finish the line...'I am so afraid of dying, before I dry the tears she's crying.' Meaning that she is mourning him being gone and he's hoping he can live to get back to her. He's not saying he's afraid to die for his country or afraid to die in battle.
Early 1969... The Beatles had finished their last public performance on the rooftop in England. Glen was in good company! What a ballad! He mentions a girl of 21. Every man wants a young girl in his life. If he is lucky enough to find one, then he must accept that she gets older like anyone else.
The narrative of this supremely wonderful song has such depth and meaning yet takes place in a time span of 1:48. It tells so much, with so few words, not one wasted or out of place, with so much emotion and grace. It continues to be one of the most potent pieces of music ever written and recorded. Thank you Jimmy and Glen, and thanks for posting.
Exactly! This song gets me every time I hear it - or play it in my head because you don't hear it much these days unless you come to TH-cam and search for it. Having lived through the Vietnam War, having a former brother-in-law who got messed up during that war and was never the same after, and a dear cousin who also served in 'Nam, was never the same after and ended up - some say - killing himself in a motor cycle accident. There are just some things you don't get over. Jimmy Webb managed to capture the horror, awfulness and terror of war but wrapped it in a love story about the girl that soldier was dreaming of back home.
This song is so beautiful, heartbreaking, and haunting...all at the same time. Nothing short of brilliant. Thank you for posting this quality version in the wake of Glen's passing. Rest In Peace Glen Campbell. You were a once in a generation talent.
I cry when I hear this...Nam , ya know..
this song was meant for the civil war era...
Spanish American War but we all knew it was OUR song
I agree, Dan...I can put myself in that GI's place sitting in the jungle in Vietnam, cleaning his rifle, which is his lifeline, and thinking about his girl back home....that sentiment has happened since the beginning of war in different locations.....
Dan: your comment is spot on!
As an old man now, and a Marine Vet, this song makes me sob for all the young men our corrupt and murderous ruling class sends to senseless, needless, wars .......... 😞 😞 😞
Same here. I'm now 68. I hate that so many Ukraine men are now being sacrificed.
Spot on
I’m with you punkin! My dad and brothers both marines, both committed suicide! I always remember this sing playing in my house. It makes me sob as well! Take care!
All wars are bankers wars.
True.
I'm a drafted, disabled, and Republic of Vietnam combat veteran '68. I remember this song very well in 1969. My girlfriend ditched me while I was in Vietnam. I had turned 21 in Vietnam.
This is the very first time I've seen this Campbell video. I notice Campbell is wearing the old white style Army name tag. This song touched me deeply in 1969 and still does. Godspeed. R.I.P., JMJ to Campbell.
Godbless and Garryowen . 7th Cav Iraq
Wow , sorry you went through that ... glad you made it home safely .
And don't forget the guy who wrote Galveston the great songwriter Jimmy Webb ... he wrote a number of those Glenn Campbell songs and also MacArthur's Park
🙏❤ i used to hear this on the radio too as a 4yrold and then as a 20 something i read Michael Herr's Dispatches where he references the song
Thank you for your service❤
A Galvestonian
A great song for the Vietnam era, It captured the heartbreak of the time. A protest song without really being a protest song or being preachy. Soldiers remembering home and wondering did love still wait for them.
No one - NO - ONE - sings Jimmy Webb like Glen Campbell. This is a masterpiece.
I feel fortunate to have been able to see him perform live on stage in the late 60's at the Houston Livestock and Rodeo!
“If there was ever and example of man with too much talent in one body it would be Glen."
~Merle Haggard
The lyric “ I’m am so afraid of dying “ hits home on so many levels and the way he sings it affects me in a way I can’t explain😕
Because you're human and know there was a controversial war at the time of this song. That sentiment had to be somewhere in the minds of so many draftees in Vietnam. It's heartbreaking to think of a 19 year-old, leaving behind his fiancé' and going to war, worried he may never see her again, and vice versa for his girl. Heartbreakingly beautiful song.
Ain't it the truth...my friend
He's a soldier, doing a tour in Vietnam, reminiscing about his Galveston, Texas...
No kidding. I dreamed of Galveston last night (never been there) and had to get up and play it right away. Love that song - one of many memories of my youth.
@@denisesalles7248I went to Galveston about 17 years ago to get on a cruise ship and so I did a little exploring afterwards and it's a really cool place and some wonderful old beautiful architecture .
What blew my mind was knowing that the worst Tragedy by numbers ever to happen in one small area in America happened in the early 1900s with the hurricane and there are documentaries about it .
I think over 8,000 people perished 😢 in the Galveston area and that was when they had a much smaller population of course .
I wonder what bought your thoughts to Galveston when you were dreaming .
This is surely the greatest song of all time.
This and 'Wichita lineman' his best tunes. Robert at 68.
I live in Galveston. This song is perhaps one of the greatest tributes to this historic city in Texas.
Come on down and visit my city of Galveston.
It's underwater now.
John Derosa
Nah...We got some flooded Streets but the water rescinded. Its all clear now in Galveston.
We just visited Galveston. My regret is that we only had 2 days. So much to do and see.
Wow, I lived in Santa Fe(12 miles from Galveston) in the early 60s. That video was like a flashback, my family went there so often. I lived there when Hurricane Carla hit:(
We did in 1974. Fun times.
I started liking Glenn Campbell when I was 13 in 1968. He's still one of my favorite singers and guitar players.
RIP GLENN
My brother was in Nam with the Marines when this came out.
So was I. Tell your brother I said "Semper Fi" and welcome home!
I love this song's!
I was a Marine in Vietnam then also. Semper Fi to all my Marine brothers from that time.
I pray that all of us, of all branches, have survived well, and my heart goes out to those of us who struggle 🙏.
Semper Fi
I think this may be my favorite Glen Campbell song. My husband was in Viet Nam when this came out.
God bless you and your husband
GOD BLESS him one of my older brothers was in Nam when this came out as well. this song and the LIghts of Alb(can;t spell the capital of New Mexico) by Billy Mize was the other as a reminder of that time
Yes! God bless your husband! God bless all who served there, the veterans, the ones who never came home,who paid the ultimate price. We owe a debt that cannot be repaid.
it's my favourite Glen Campbell song.
Hi everyone it’s me again. I love the music from my youth and young adulthood,it helped me and others forget about all the bad things going on at that time. We’ve forgotten what real music and talent sounds like, when it could make you remember first loves and loss, good times and bad and realize we’re going to make it through without hurting ourselves and each other😢
I would give anything to
Go back to 1969
Me too!
No thanks worst year in my life
Me too
Worst year in my life--drafted into the Army at age 23--but the G.I. Bill gave me five years of college after working in an Army hospital in the States.
Wouldn't we ALL 👍👍👍
This came out in 1969, my high school grad year when I was a wee lad of 18 years-old. It never made me cry back then, but now 53 year later it certainly does! 😭 Does anyone know where all the decades have fled? 😢 God bless dear Glen Campbell, his entire family, and all who listen to this for years to come. 🙏💔 P.S. My little sis just spent Christmas with her son and two grandsons in Galveston! 🤗🥰
I was a senior in high school and graduated in 1969 too, but a few months shy of my 18th birthday. I'm a woman, so I wasn't subject to the draft, but it was something that was of huge concern to so many that I went to high school with, because we were working class folks and most of us didn't go right on to college - there wasn't money for that. Even then I thought this song was so beautiful and I "play" it regularly in my mind. Nobody sang it like Glen. Jimmy Webb was a genius, pure and simple, and the songs that he and Glen Campbell collaborated on are classics that I hope will live forever. "Wichita Lineman" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," along with "Galveston", OMGoddess! I've heard re-makes over the years of "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" but not of "Wichita Lineman" or "Galveston," which I think pays great credence to the fact that nobody sang those songs like Glen did and nobody poured such raw but perfect emotions into his music as Jimmy Webb.
its not the years,its the mileage
One of The Best songs Ever!
@@jannibal9273 I had just got out of MARINE CORP Boot Camp in 1969 at 18 years old. Played by Wolfman Jack out of a San Diego radio station.
His guitar work on this song is fabulous. He plays right from his soul to ours. A true genius.
Beautiful video...this song always makes me cry. Thank you to my two brothers and all who served in Viet Nam. Rest In Peace Glen. 🙏🏻🇺🇸
I was fifteen when this song came out. I recall one night listening to it on the radio and how it touched me. It made me feel joy and it made me cry.
Beautiful song if you don’t like it there’s something wrong with you
It's just straight from heaven is all. Glen's interpretation of this song is everlasting.
Wichita Lineman was another good one ... but Galveston is my favorite song that Glen Campbell did .
I just feel that I lived long ago with this song...
I am 36 and just discovered this song recently. I enjoy listening to the music of my parents generation. This is one of my favorites.
Hard to think that beautiful woman is probably now in her seventies.
God I was only 9 years old then
I was also 9 years old , even though I was just a kid I fell in love with her .
Father Time spares no one...
Yes, she was 21 when i left Galveston. Now we would have been 75. She passed away last year. Glen Campbell has also passed. God please, I would have those times again.
She passed away? So sorry to hear. Such a classy beauty.
"I clean my gun And dream of Galveston" - beautiful lyrics and so heartfelt!
The original line, in this video, is "I aim my gun"
Thousands of miles from home, fighting for your life and trying to be brave, missing home so much... Many soldiers can relate to this song.
My dad was in the Vietnam war royal Australian army rip dad no more nightmares
I love this song!!!
I partied there with friends, We had a El Camino and a quarter barrel in the back , So Beautiful ❤ 1986
This is what I grew up with, mam loved him.
What makes this song all the sadder is not just the war, but the fact that this man is no longer with us.
That song growing up here in the 60s in the UK. Had to visit & experience it!! Done it in 2011. Bar driving through Houston ( on the wrong side of the road!!!!) Loved it.🏴🇺🇸
I love music from every style this is definitely in my all time top 20
Glen, was the most underappreciated talent of the 60's and 70's....Glen and Johnny Cash were the premiere talents back in those days...both from the little state of Arkansas.
spoiler alert
There was 2 year period where Glen absolutely ruled the charts. His genius was recognized and appreciated.
Very true. I was a kid in the 70s. He was on the radio all the time. Got kind of overexposed, but the older i get, the more I appreciate his talent.
Only thing wrong with yr comment IMO is you left out ELVIS
Just noticed, I made a comment on this beautiful GC song four years ago..I keep coming back to view/listen, just can,t help myself..(also "The Best of Glen Campbell" CD seems to permanently live in my car CD player!
I was 14 when this song was released. I was taken by its sadness about Vietnam and totally afraid my brother would be drafted. Glen Campbell was the best. I miss him.
Interestingly, this song was written not about Vietnam, but about the spanish-american war (hence the cannons etc). But it was released at the heart of the Vietnam war and quickly came to represent the longing those in Vietnam must have felt.
I WOULD LOVE TO GO TO GALVESTON BEACH & HEAR THIS SONG LOOKING BACK TO THIS TIME. EVERYTIME I HEAR THIS ON OUR LOCAL COASTAL CLASSIC RADIO I THINK OF A GIRL LOOKING OUT TO SEA WAITING THERE FOR WHOEVER TO COME BACK TO HER AND RUN DOWN THE BEACH..SO MUCH TIME HAS GONE BY ..RIP GC.
A masterful recording. Kudos to the great musicians of the world famous Wrecking Crew for bringing out all of the complexity and beauty of this song. Glen is playing the guitar solo and it's actually a six-string Danelectro bass loaned to him by another musician at the session, Carol Kaye. I can listen to the words and music of this song all day long.
RIP.....Hope you finally made it back to Galveston.
I was 9 when this song came out..my name was Glenn also and got a guitar and tried to be like him..even styled my blonde hair the same..finally visited Galveston last year..RIP my friend.
His voice speaks to me like few others
So moving thank you Glen and Jimmy 🙏🏻
What an artist Glen was,,my parents used to play this song when I was a kid, living in Australia dreaming of seeing this place and many others!
First time I heard this, I was sitting on top of my bunker on Firebase 6 listening to Armed Forces Radio.
. Glenn Camble, Is Cool . Then, and Now . Thank You 🙂 gb* hard life (MULDEW)
You can feel the pain in Glen's voice and his longing for home and the girl he loves and how he's worry he won't make it home unless it's in a box.
My brother plays this on guitar for me, he knows I love it - I did get to visit once, I think I was on that beach in the video
If you grew up in Galveston you know exactly what he is singing about.
My "Galveston" is not exactly a place that I left for service but a time, an era that existed over 50 years ago, people and things in a time that no longer exist, something that I can no longer physically revisit and I can only call back and cherish through memories.
Jimmy Webb, is vastly underrated as a songwriter.
I was 7 years old when this song came out and what comes to mind is my grandfather sitting in his recliner with a Jim Beam whiskey in one hand and a pipe full of tobacco in the other. And Grandma sitting in her chair next to him crocheting some blanket we were watching Hee-Haw and programs like that LOL
The good ole days for sure!
I'm now in my 50s when I was 10 my school had us singing Galveston I still remember and love that song. My mum has dementia and on our last two roadtrips I played Glen Campbell's Greatest Hits knowing she'd remember and love the songs she did ❤ thanks and RIP Glen.
I'd kill if I could move to Texas (not Austin or Houston) love those rural route state route names..'such and such FARM MARKET road'..awesome!, and knocks my socks off. Robert at 68 stuck in Arizona with VERY aged parents. Love govenor Abbott also..Dallas for a BIG city not that bad, unlike L.A. or Phoenix where I'm near, but there you go...
There are some singers there will only be one of..Glen Campbell is one of one..Great singer Great Song...
Tho this song was done during Vietnam it is relevant for all who served and dreamed of their home and the people they left behind.Beruit 83-84
Absolutely a great example of how great music and video combine to create emotional magic that simultaneously makes the soul soar and dive as it moves along. A beautiful song that is complimented by a haunting beautifully shot video ... the faded colours and ghost like imaging adds to the atmosphere.
Agree. And also believe the video tips off this song is not confined to war in the 1800's, it was very much of the current times. But you were never going to get an even remotely anti-war song on country radio.
Love this song
The first time I heard this song, I was floored, I had never even heard of Glen Campbell.
From that time on I’ve loved every song by Glen, gorgeous man, beautiful voice.
Got to see him at The Royal Albert Hall in London.
Saw him again in later years, along with Kenny Rogers, at the Wembley conference centre.
[Verse 2]
In Don Ho's 1968 recording, the second verse was:
Galveston, oh Galveston
Wonder if she could forget me
I'd go home if they would let me
Put down this gun
And go to Galveston.[11]
However, in both the singer Glen Campbell's version and in the writer Jimmy Webb’s own 1972 album Letters (and his later performances), this verse was:
Galveston, oh Galveston
I still hear your sea waves crashing
While I watch the cannons flashing
I clean my gun
And dream of Galveston.[12]
I just wanted to say that I went searching for this song, because there was a woman commenter that saif that her boyfriend or husband had gone to Viet Nam and was lucky to come home to her, and that was 50 years ago; and that he was still there with her. I should have commented to her post but i didn't. God bless you and your husband. I consider myself lucky to be with the woman of my dreams. We have been together for over 20 years.
What a classic! Gotta love songs like this! Truly brilliant and moving even today!
Always found this song really moving. Takes me back to being a 15 year old kid working in a tobacco warehouse in Manchester England. My future lay before me, I'm a long way down that path now
Still brings a tear to my eye after all these years.👌❤️
My Dad useToo Listen Too This Glenn Campbell song and aver Glenn Campbell song's R.I.P dad 😭❤️
Thanks for posting this, I was looking for this video for a while. RIP, Mr. Campbell, you will be missed.
When Jimmy Webb met Glenn, magic ensued....
Makes me miss my old home. Lived there for seven years, a block from the Seawall on 25th right by the Flagship. G-town forever!
we all love glen. he was a beautiful and very talented person, at least we have the music,
that will never die.
faded and haunting..what memories..
My big sister took me to a party at the Flagship. Ended up sleeping it off
on the beach. Very cool and peaceful.
Galveston is a song that will haunt me into eternity. I don’t know why.
Glen Campbell was America's male 'Premier Vocalist'. Possibly still is.
One of my favourite songs from the master himself. I sung along to this song as a kid and still love listening to it. RIP Glen thanks for the wonderful music you gave the world ❤️🌹❤️love from Kiwi land.
Love from Seattle USA.
this song went to the moon, wow
R.I.P. GLEN
I just listened to and watched 'Yellow 'River' and 'Down By the River' - so many songs from the early 70's were superb - this one ('Galveston') one of the most haunting.
This is definitely in my top 10 favorite songs of all time...
As a kid I watched this in its original broadcast. It was wonderful then, and more so now. The world is a lesser place without him.
How his voice, music touched my heart and truly resonated in my soul.. Always have Loved Glen Campbell and this my first favourite written by Jimmy Webb, and Glen's guitar playing brillance and his Beautiful expressive voice brings the lyrics alive. He's entertaining the heavenly choir now, and I can never thank him enough for all the joy and happiness he's brought into my life over the past several decades. I continue to listen to his music CDs, albums and watch his DVDs so often. Sioux Falls is my favourite... I have it on DVD and CD love it!! And what a gorgeous man that just got better looking. God bless him♥️
SUCH A TOTALLY FAMOUS GREAT CLASSIC THANKYOUYOU GC RIP.
Just listened to and watched 'Down By the River' (1972) and 'Yellow River' (Christie) .. these songs of the early 70's were great - this one, 'Galveston', especially beautiful . . .
Love this song - RIP Glen.....and what a beautiful woman (whoever she is.)
One of the BEST songs and Singer ever!
She's a former airline stewardess.
GLENN RIP 🙏 YOU WERE THE MOST AMAZING GUY IN THE MUSIC BIZ FOR YOUR TIME CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU AND ELVIS IN HEAVEN
My Glen, I love you as my father had loved you sir
. I love you! God bless you forever.
I miss Galveston, and I'm not even from the place.
Glen Campbell you still are icon to the world oh great thou art and God bless you amen
Rest In Peace reinstone cowboy
. "Galveston" was the greatest anti-war song of that entire decade filled with protest songs.Unlike the sneering,cynical anti-war songs of that era "Galveston" was beautifully respectful of those who were fighting in Vietnam and highlighted the painful cost on a personal level. That's Jimmy Webb. He was in his early 20's when he wrote these incredibly rich lyrics,expressing wisdom far beyond his years. But that was the 60's.He labored among giants and stood shoulder to shoulder with the very best." Wichita Lineman" still chills me to the bone.
It wasn't anti-war in the slightest.
It was about a lovesick and homesick young man dreaming of days not so far forgotten. It was about what a man, who saw his dream of being home...that it was about to become just that...a dream. It was about 'when your life flashed before your eyes' ...when his life was about to possibly be cut short-the loves of his life.
But hey, what do I know?
"Galveston,oh Galveston.............I am so afraid of dying"
The single most powerful anti-war line in any of the songs of that decade for which the Vietnam War was the catalyst.And every sweet memory the subject is reminiscing about is one more compelling reason he should be home in Galveston.....instead of in Vietnam. In virtually every other song inspired by that war those who served were depicted as naive,foolish or downright vicious. "Galveston" is the song that depicts them with respect as good young men who should not have been drafted and hurled into that cauldron of horror and yes, .....fear. That one line brought the reality home with more power than all the other songs combined. Those were hard,hard times and I remember it all. The nation was delirious with social change but that war was tearing us apart at the same time. By far the most intense decade I've experienced. No time period since has even come close.
If you look at the words *originally* written by Jimmy Webb, you'll observe just how anti-war the song truly was.
WildVideoNYC you are absolutely right! I spent 1969 to 1972 on 2 different aircraft carriers and made 3 cruises to Vietnam! I hated it and all I wanted was to be back home! Years later, I wouldn't have taken anything for it because I saw a lot of the world during those 4 years! However, you're absolutely right! We had no business being in Vietnam and the sacrifice of all those great young men, and women too, was a crime!
WildvideoNYC.....actually, you need to finish the line...'I am so afraid of dying, before I dry the tears she's crying.' Meaning that she is mourning him being gone and he's hoping he can live to get back to her. He's not saying he's afraid to die for his country or afraid to die in battle.
Thanks for this. One of my absolute favorite Pop/Country artist. R.I.P., Glen.
I am not afraid of dying.. in fact my time was about when this song was made .. lucky to still enjoy the song and no regrets.
Glen was one of the elite musicians of L.A., the Wrecking Crew. He could do it all...................as this beautiful record shows.
This song makes me think of being five years old with tape recorder running,and singing this with my Dad.
I am so glad we have you tube to share memories like this .
Early 1969... The Beatles had finished their last public performance on the rooftop in England. Glen was in good company! What a ballad! He mentions a girl of 21. Every man wants a young girl in his life. If he is lucky enough to find one, then he must accept that she gets older like anyone else.
That was a really great trip. Ioved it. I will never forget.🙋🏻♀️💖⭐🌙
The narrative of this supremely wonderful song has such depth and meaning yet takes place in a time span of 1:48. It tells so much, with so few words, not one wasted or out
of place, with so much emotion and grace. It continues to be one of the most potent pieces of music ever written and recorded. Thank you Jimmy and Glen, and thanks for posting.
Exactly! This song gets me every time I hear it - or play it in my head because you don't hear it much these days unless you come to TH-cam and search for it. Having lived through the Vietnam War, having a former brother-in-law who got messed up during that war and was never the same after, and a dear cousin who also served in 'Nam, was never the same after and ended up - some say - killing himself in a motor cycle accident. There are just some things you don't get over. Jimmy Webb managed to capture the horror, awfulness and terror of war but wrapped it in a love story about the girl that soldier was dreaming of back home.
Listening in 2020 on the cusp of 2021. A true classic!
I was a little kid when this was released. It was one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar. Beautifully crafted pop song with a message.
Galveston will always have the best, family memories, for me.