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I Am A Lineman For The County

  • 11-10-2016 11:46pm
    #1
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭


    And i drive the main road . . .

    They don't make them like that anymore.:(


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  • #2
    Schwiiing
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    Go to bed.


  • #3
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Schwiiing wrote: »
    Go to bed.

    I hear you singing in the wire, I can hear you through the whine . . :P

    Seriously, the greatest song of all time and that's your response? Shame on you!


  • #4
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Did you just see War on Everyone tonight?


  • #5
    Username here
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭Username here


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    .... Seriously, the greatest song of all time....

    Have you heard Villagers cover of it? It's absolutely wonderful.


  • #6
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    Did you just see War on Everyone tonight?

    Nope, I have no idea what that is.

    I was walling spuds in a shed in the backarse of nowhere with nothing with a broken CD stuck on that song for company when Baywatch was still the main show on TV.


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  • #7
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Username here wrote: »
    Have you heard Villagers cover of it? It's absolutely wonderful.

    My dodgy box doesn't know who they are:o


  • #8
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭Stigura


    BM; We need to move on.

    Back in the day, it was Glen Campbell and his Wichita Linesman. Yes. It was good.

    Now? We need to evolve .....



    Try it. Try the whole album. Trust me ;)



  • #9
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I'd rather listen to the Vengaboys


  • #10
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Nope, I have no idea what that is.

    It's a film in the flicks right now (the director of which is Irish) where the lead character is obsessed with Glen Campbell and Wichita Linesman is in there too.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkQgZGNMdv4


  • #11
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Wichita Linesman - Glen Campbell 1969. I presume you're referring to this song?


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  • #12
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Wichita Linesman - Glen Campbell 1969. I presume you're referring to this song?

    Mayo losing the all-Ireland. Let it go, OP, let it go.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #13
    Arghus
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    Here we are, for those confused by the meandering:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qoymGCDYzU


  • #14
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Arghus wrote: »
    Here we are, for those confused by the meandering:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qoymGCDYzU

    I'm not a big fan of country but I always liked this song.:)


  • #15
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,824 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Sorry for your troubles.

    Maybe someday you'll make it to umpire.


  • #16
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I love that song :)


  • #17
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Great song, great lyrics, this especially:
    And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time


  • #18
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Gentle on my Mind is a better song


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Gentle on my Mind is a better song

    Equally as good I would say.


  • #20
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,638 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Linear songs are so passé, curves are where it's at.
    Round, like a circle in a spiral, a wheel within a wheel...

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #21
    bnt
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    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    Did you just see War on Everyone tonight?
    I thought this was about the new John Travolta movie?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEz8Z_G8SBk

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #22
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,194 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    I thought Jimmy Webb would have got a mention by now?

    I've just mentioned Jimmy Webb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Webb


  • #23
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Hold on a minute....
    a discussion of Glen Campbell that doesn't mention his GREATEST EVER song - Galveston!

    I was about 13 or 14 and I was a confederate soldier and Geraldine ******* was the dusky dark haired beauty who lived around the corner. She never knew........


    ....sigh


  • #24
    ohnonotgmail
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    Elmer Blooker wrote: »
    I thought Jimmy Webb would have got a mention by now?

    I've just mentioned Jimmy Webb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Webb


    Poor Jimmy never gets mentioned. Though i doubt poor is the correct word to describe him.


  • #25
    Mr. FoggPatches
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Mr. FoggPatches


    I'm a linesman for the county too. Can't bate the free dinner.


  • #26
    Yamanoto
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    This version on Jools Holland is spectacularly good.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B49YDR6OMIE


  • #27
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Awesome song, I loved Glen Campbell as a kid and was my drinking song in my earlier years.

    It then moved on to this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S9ecXWCBCc


  • #28
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,788 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    For me, this will always remain the definitive version

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L_T6NlKtFs


  • #29
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    Never get tired of this song.

    It has a really cool melancholic feel to it.


  • #30
    Steve F
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭Steve F


    Poor ol Glen
    So ill now he can't communicate :(


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
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    Stigura wrote: »
    Try it. Try the whole album. Trust me ;)

    I love that album, Black Cowboys would be my favourite track on it.


  • #32
    youtheman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭youtheman


    NickNickleby wrote: »
    Hold on a minute....
    a discussion of Glen Campbell that doesn't mention his GREATEST EVER song - Galveston!

    I was about 13 or 14 and I was a confederate soldier and Geraldine ******* was the dusky dark haired beauty who lived around the corner. She never knew........


    ....sigh
    I went to Houston TX once for a conference. I had an afternoon off and a big ford automatic under my ar5e (with air conditioning, never saw the likes of it before). So I decided to drive to Galveston just because I recognised the name from that song. What an absolute 5hithole. Damn you Glen Campbell. I'll never get that 1/2 day back again.


  • #33
    Wichita Lineman
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    Check out the Sammy Davis Jnr funky version..................




  • #34
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    I havent heard that song for years. My mam use to play a lot of Glen Cambell. I also really like Reason to Believe from the same album.


  • #35
    GBX
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I'd rather listen to the Vengaboys

    Apt username


  • #36
    indioblack
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    And i drive the main road . . .

    They don't make them like that anymore.:(
    Bought the 45 in 1968, I think.
    Loved it then, love it now.


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