Galveston - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
In 1972, Jimmy Webb released his 4th solo album "Letters", and it failed to chart like everything else he had recorded. The lead song of this album was "Galveston", the way Webb meant it to be : "about a guy who's caught up in something he doesn't understand and rather would be somewhere else" in his own words. Three years before, Glen Campbell had soaked it with heavy arrangement and made it an "Anti Vietnam War Song", flashing all charts.Well Jimmy, I'm sorry ... for the rest, I rate all your songs better performed by yourself than any cover artist, but this time Campbell beat you. Still I use to slow it down a bit, and fluctuate the rhythm to avoid it sounding like a march.
G C D7 G G7 C C/B...Am7 Galveston oh Galveston I still hear your sea winds blowing D7 G Bm C C/B...Am7 I still see her dark eyes glowing D7 Em Cmaj7 C G she was twenty-one when I left Galveston G C D7 G G7 C C/B...Am7 Galveston oh Galveston I still hear your sea waves clashing D7 G C C/B...Am7 while I watch the cannons flashing D7 Em Cmaj7 C G I clean my gun and dream of Galveston Bb C Bb ...C I still see her standing by the water Dm Bb standing there looking out to sea Gm C7 F and is she waiting there for me Am Dm Gm ... Dsus4...C...D7 on the beach where we used to run G C D7 G G7 C C/B...Am7 Galveston oh Galveston I am so afraid of dying D7 G C C/B...Am7 before I dry the tears she's crying Em C Bm Am7 before I watch your sea birds flying in the sun E at Galveston
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