Love, Work, and Jimmy Webb’s ‘Wichita Lineman’

Life is hard. It’s also beautiful. It’s made of love and work and more love and, even though you know it’s going to end, you also know a part of it will somehow go on.
I didn’t get the theme above from a wise teacher or an ancient book. I got it from a 1968 pop-country song that has been called “the greatest song ever written.”
Jimmy Webb wrote “Wichita Lineman” for Glen Campbell following Campbell’s hit cover of Webb’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” Campbell wanted “another city song.” Little did he know he would get a masterpiece….

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