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TIL Jimmy Webb wrote the classic song 'Highwayman' after a hard night of drinking with Harry Nilsson he passed out and had a hyper realistic dream about riding horse back with pistols and being chased and shot at by the police. He woke up drenched in sweat and immediately wrote the song

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