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Gentle on My Mind is one of my favorite songs.

''Through cupped hands, round a tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're waiting on the backroads, by the rivers of my memory
Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind.''

It is a song about hopping freight trains, and thinking about the girl you left behind. I have hopped a lot of freight trains. Love this song.
I have been there and done that a dozen times, sitting by a campfire near the railroad tracks, drinking a up of coffee and thinking of my girlfriend back home.

I would rather cauterize my gaping hemorrhoids with a firestick poker than listen to or view either one!

some friends of ours are big JD fans. every fuggen time we go over there to party, they are either playing him on the stereo or strumming his songs on the guitar. fuggen horror show. the corpses of JD and GC should be dug up and run through a wood chipper pointed at their house.

Wife beater or a queer..... hell of a choice

I really like the music from each of them , but if I had to choose, JD's more obs cure stuff wins for me. Songs like Wild Montana skies and The Cowboy and the Lady were great!

This.

Apples, and Oranges, both were good.

Lost his head because of it.

Truth.
Galveston, the song that told the story of a young man leaving his true love to go fight in Vietnam and not knowing if he would ever see her and home and Galveston.again as distsnce took it from his sight.
It was the story of many young Americans who were afraid of going there and dying far from home, and die they did, for LBJ and the Bolshevik deep state Military Industrial complex.

Robert NcNamara, on his death bed confessed he and Johnson discussed before they opened the war that we would not win. LBJs family made billions off Ladybirds holdings in Bell Hell, Sea Container and Brown and Root and the blood of our brothers and some would be Fire military supporters, POS posers all, still vote Dimocrap.

There is what I think is a great trend toward re-evaluating old musicians. Ringo -for example- now everyone thinks he is great. Was not the case not long ago. These guys paid their dues and I am glad to see guys getting a fair look as we grow older and learn to appreciate a wider scope of things in general.

Simonkenton7- Glenn has had a similar recent surge in respect for his playing. The lyrics on that song recently became more 'aware' to me- really poetic and masterful. Thanks for putting them out there- nice to see others appreciating great verse. You have probably seen the video of several notable musicians hanging out and Glen starts playing Gentle on my mind- the grins on all those near show the admiration they have for hi especially his little solo in the middle. How can one not enjoy that? Never really paid attention to Galveston until recently explained - grateful for the new found appreciation.

Jag- well yeah ...Dems making money of other people's misery. Not sure Johnson started that trend but holy hell have they perfected it.

Yeah.. Nice liberal commie.

Lol.

To even have both of them in the same sentence is a travesty.

Wichita Lineman is one of the greatest songs ever.

Well, I didn't get that impression. His dad was Air Force. He supported the military. In any case, we didn't discuss politics, but music, and trout fishing.

If I remember correctly, Denver was very anti-hunting.

L.W.

Glen Campbell does "William Tell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0

That is some authentic campfire hyperbole there, I tell ya whut.

I am stealing this line to describe my contempt for rap "music" in some future conversation somewhere.

Thank you, well done.

Glen played a lot of studio sessions with the Wrecking Crew for other famous artists. He was a fantastic musician at any level.

I liked them both but Glen for the win.

I saw him live at the New Haven Colosseum and he talked about a recipe for wild ducks. Some people booed him and he said how good it tasted and if they ate some they would understand. Didn’t seem anti hunter to me.