Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell, 1968). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2024-07-15. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Wichita Lineman," written by Jim Webb, was Glen Campbell's first top 10 hit in 1968 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart rising to no. 3, but it was his second no.1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart (Whitburn, 1994, 2013). Webb got the idea for the song while he was "driving along the Kansas-Oklahoma border when he saw a lonesome telephone lineman working atop a telephone pole" (songfacts, 2024). What is interesting and unusual is that the song has no chorus, only two verses, a guitar interlude, then a repeat of the last couple of lines of the second verse (A. Morrison, americansongwriter, 2020). In 2020, "Wichita Lineman" was inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in as a "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" work (jimmyweb, 2020).

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Lyrics:

I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road
Searchin' in the sun for another overload
I hear you singin' in the wire, I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line

I know I need a small vacation but it don't look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain
And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line

And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line