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To: CovenBuster
Yes. I see Glenn Campbell claims that Jimmy Webb wrote the song about the Spanish-American War. (Many songwriters were inspired by the Spanish-American War in the 1960s < /sarcasm >)

Here's what Jimmy Webb said about his own song.

41 posted on 07/23/2018 8:49:49 AM PDT by SSS Two
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To: SSS Two

Thanks for the clip, although listening to JW sing is a painful experience for some of us. Writing is his strong suit. Singing, not so much. Incidentally, if you’re in Galveston and you see those bunkers, you actually could be envisioning a war of that era. But putting that aside, I found Jimmy a bit condescending toward Glen at 0:32 (”Let’s all go to war.”) Were he truly married to those convictions, he should have refused all proceeds from the success of Glen’s mega hit of this song. < /sarc >


42 posted on 07/23/2018 2:45:38 PM PDT by CovenBuster (Make America a Constitutional Republic again)
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