Recently learned that this Jimmy Webb classic -- made popular by Glen Campbell -- had been softened to not play up its barely anti-Vietnam sentiment, a war that cost 58,220 American lives, and as many as 3.8 million Vietnamese.
Original:
Wonder if she could forget me
I'd go home if they would let me
Put down this gun
And go to Galveston.
However, in Campbell's version, this was changed to:
I still hear your sea waves crashing
While I watch the cannons flashing
I clean my gun
And dream of Galveston
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