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What were those songs really about about....and do I really want to know?

michael hagerty said:
boiseengineer said:
"I clean my gun and dream of Galveston
I still see her standing by the water..."
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Well, that song's easy. A guy in Vietnam dreaming of his hometown in Texas and the girl he left behind.
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The Spanish American War, actually. One of the 1960's most prolific songwriters, Jimmy Webb (MacArthur Park, By The Time I Get To Phoenix), wrote this number while imagining what might be going on in the mind of the proverbial soldier, over the girl he left behind during that 19th century conflict. Reportedly inspiring him was the vision of a lovely girl he observed on the beach at Galveston, where he penned Galveston.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2750
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
michael hagerty said:
boiseengineer said:
"I clean my gun and dream of Galveston
I still see her standing by the water..."
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Well, that song's easy. A guy in Vietnam dreaming of his hometown in Texas and the girl he left behind.
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The Spanish American War, actually. One of the 1960's most prolific songwriters, Jimmy Webb (MacArthur Park, By The Time I Get To Phoenix), wrote this number while imagining what might be going on in the mind of the proverbial soldier, over the girl he left behind during that 19th century conflict. Reportedly inspiring him was the vision of a lovely girl he observed on the beach at Galveston, where he penned Galveston.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2750
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Wow. I never knew. Thanks for that!
 
Not having read through all 17 pages, I am shocked if no one mentioned "Please Please Me" despite all the other Beatles songs mentioned. That was rumored to have been about oral sex, and the lyrics do fit. Pretty risque for a song recorded in February 1963, although that's just by American standards. Maybe it wasn't so risque for the British.
 
AlbumOldies said:
And just what kinds of sexual thrills was Mary Hill providing at Cherry Hill Park, 'till way after dark? Pretty risque for 1969......
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The same sort that the Box Tops' "Sweet Cream Ladies" were providing for a fee around that time. Popular music was losing its lyrical chastity pretty quickly by 1969.
 
CTListener said:
AlbumOldies said:
And just what kinds of sexual thrills was Mary Hill providing at Cherry Hill Park, 'till way after dark? Pretty risque for 1969......
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The same sort that the Box Tops' "Sweet Cream Ladies" were providing for a fee around that time. Popular music was losing its lyrical chastity pretty quickly by 1969.
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Even sooner, actually. Witness The Doors, Love Me Two Times.
 
I just watched a video of Hank Williams singing "Cold, Cold Heart", and one of the comments claims he wrote the song after visiting his wife (Miss Audrey) in the hospital after she had an abortion, and brought her flowers and candy only to have her throw them back at him and cuss him out. Anyone else ever hear that story?
 
Corky Marlowe said:
I just watched a video of Hank Williams singing "Cold, Cold Heart", and one of the comments claims he wrote the song after visiting his wife (Miss Audrey) in the hospital after she had an abortion, and brought her flowers and candy only to have her throw them back at him and cuss him out. Anyone else ever hear that story?
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Given that the song was recorded more than 20 years before abortions were legally performed in hospitals, I'd say that's not true.
 
Who knows...Certainly they were performed at that time, just not in hospitals. Or it could have been a miscarriage. Or the guy could just be talking out of his backside.
 
I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream.
Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme
A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
In anger unkind words are spoke that make the teardrops start
Why can't I free your doubtful mind,and melt your cold cold heart

You'll never know how much it hurts to see you sit and cry
You know you need and want my love yet you're afraid to try
Why do you run and hide from life,to try it just ain't smart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory
The more I learn to care for you,the more we drift apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart



Reads like someone hurt her before and she's afraid to giver her heart again. Mike Nesmith reversed it with "The Girl That I Knew Somewhere."
 
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