It's such a haunting song, but I have never understood its meaning
2007-03-01 16:22:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Wichita Lineman. This was written by Jimmy Webb, who also wrote Campbell's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Galveston." He was driving along the Kansas-Oklahoma border when he saw a lonesome telephone lineman working atop a telephone pole. This gave him the idea for the song.
2007-03-01 16:29:03 · answer #1 · answered by Crash 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's 'Wichita Line*MAN*' - it's about a guy who works on phone lines and develops an infatuation with a woman whose voice he can hear by tapping into the wires. (Note - The guy isn't necessarily a perv eavesdropping on people; at the time this was a common means of testing transmission quality.) Some of the instrumentation in the original recording is supposed to mimic line noise and static.
2007-03-02 00:31:45 · answer #2 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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witchita line is a railway way line sohe sing about the rails..I used to work on a radio tower up behind his house in the mountains and had the occasional beer with him after a day working high up.
2007-03-02 00:33:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋