Galveston (song)

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Galveston is a song written by Jimmy Webb and popularized by Glen Campbell.

The song is sung by a soldier in combat who is nostalgic for his home town, Galveston, Texas, characterized as a woman: "I still see her standing by the water ... Standing there, looking out to sea, and is she waiting there for me..."

The song was somewhat controversial in some circles, as its subject, singing while cleaning his gun, admits to being "so afraid of dying".

Webb admitted in interviews that he didn't have Vietnam in mind when he wrote the song, as he imagined it taking place during a battle of the Spanish-American war [1]. However, it was widely perceived as a protest song.

This song made the CMT list of the ten greatest country-western songs of all time. The popular crossover single also made #4 on the Billboard Top 100, and #1 on their Easy Listening survey.

[edit] Succession

Preceded by "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" by Loretta Lynn

Billboard Hot Country Singles number one single by Glen Campbell April 19-May 3, 1969

Succeeded by "Hungry Eyes" by Merle Haggard and The Strangers