by Harry Chapin on album On the Road to Kingdom Come

by Harry Chapin on album The Bottom Line Encore Collection

So here she's actin' happy inside her handsome home And me, I'm flyin' in my taxi, takin' tips and gettin' stoned. I got into town a little early. Had eight hours to kill before the show. First I tho

by Harry Chapin on album The Bottom Line Encore Collection

I let time go lightly when I'm here with you, I let time go lightly when the day is through. I keep a watch on time when I've have work to do, I let time go lightly with you. Morning, a time for brea

by Harry Chapin on album The Bottom Line Encore Collection

He's the man with the banjo and the 12-string guitar. And he's singing us the songs that tell us who we are. When you look in his eyes you know that somebody's in there. Yeah, he knows where we're goi

by Harry Chapin on album Heads & Tales

Turning on my pillow, thinking kind of strange. The color is of midnight in this room. The cars outside are coughing and it's kind of hard to sleep and there's neon out the window, not the moon. And

by Harry Chapin on album Heads & Tales

Empty closet, empty heart. Empty morning, day won't start. Well, I got no place to go now, I really do not know how to like my life, now that you're gone. Empty mailbox, empty head. Empty promise, e

by Harry Chapin on album Heads & Tales

It's midnight at the depot And I drag my bags in line. Travellin' light, I got to go But the bus won't be on time. Everybody's looking half alive. Later on the bus arrives. They punch my ticket I fin

by Harry Chapin on album Heads & Tales

She moved so well 'cause she was a dancer, She went sliding through my questions, gliding 'round the answer. Whatever it was, she knew it was holy, And each time I tried to hold her her smile came s

by Harry Chapin on album Living Room Suite

Little boy on the first day of school Got some crayons and started to draw He drew colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said. "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin'

by Harry Chapin on album Living Room Suite

It was when I rode off in my daydreams Chasing that vision of light It was then I got caught in the jet stream And I dropped through a hole in the night And I knew it's not you that I run from I saw e

by Harry Chapin on album Living Room Suite

Oh well I wonder Yes I wonder What would happen What would happen to this world Well I wonder what would happen to this world Now if a man tried To take his time on Earth And prove before he died Wha

by Harry Chapin on album Living Room Suite

You're a livin' walkin' dream You're the best I've ever seen, Oh God I wanted you. I've often dreamed what I would do, If I could give myself to you, Oh God I wanted to. But up 'til now you've not bee

by Harry Chapin on album Living Room Suite

When your daddy plays guitar, You dance without a smile. Kid you may not have great rhythm, But you sure got style. Just four years old and still it seems, You've got it figured out. When daddy sings,

by Harry Chapin on album Storyteller

I'm a strummin' fool out in the sticks For the glory and the bread And you're wise enough to let me sing This music in my head. And if there's any way to get there Strumming head on out I go driven ha

by Harry Chapin on album Storyteller

I used to play the trumpet once but now I play guitar Somebody told you it's more mellow. Well I've played a lot of music since but I really haven't grown that far Somebody said that you're just yello

by Harry Chapin on album Dance Band On The Titanic

There's a kid out on my corner -- hear him strumming like a fool Shivering in his dungarees -- but still he's going to school His cheeks are made of peach fuzz -- his hopes may be the same But he's si

by Harry Chapin on album Dance Band On The Titanic

Well, I hear you are a painter now Though you're almost halfway through You pulled a pallet knife, you cut away a wife And you started something new But, it was not the strife of married life That or

by Harry Chapin on album Dance Band On The Titanic

Dance band on the Titanic Sing "Nearer, my God, to Thee" The iceberg's on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me Mama stood cryin' at the dockside Sayin' "Please son, don't take this trip" I said

by Harry Chapin on album Greatest Stories Live

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around. All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years

by Harry Chapin on album Greatest Stories Live

I let time go lightly when I'm here with you, I let time go lightly when the day is through. I keep a watch on time when I've have work to do, I let time go lightly with you. Morning, a time for brea