by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

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 and

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

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 going

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

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, empty be

by Harry Chapin on album Dance Band On The Titanic

At first you seemed just like my dream Of a finer better life Much more than I could ask for In a lover or a wife Though I work with my body And my work makes my hands rough There are gentle things in

by Harry Chapin on album Verities And Balderdash

Mrs. Smith and Mr. Jones have come to pass the night They pulled off of the highway when they saw my light It's a vacancy I offer them, what they offer me Is fullness for a lifetime that's bare as can

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

This phone's growin' into my ear I made three hundred calls today Though yours is the only voice that I wanna hear I got to make me a livin' someway I know you hate me doin' this You say I'm sellin'

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

You keep looking out my window at the driftwood floating by Like a flock of birds in fall time you're just itching to fly I know I cannot hold you 'cause you live life to the hilt So go on get out of

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

Just after I screamed at you, "What the hell is it all about" You spilled your coffee onto my sleeve, and you said "Don't expect the tears to come from me babe For I've already grieved" But that's wh

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

In the little town of Candor in the last year of my youth I learned the final lesson of the levels to the truth My father was a farmer he'd go tilling in the ground My mother was a neighbor she'd go v

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

Oh God babe, you've been good for me Good when I been barely holding on And you did what you could for me When all the ones I counted on were gone You picked me up in your battered blue Volkswagen, b

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

I have made a little music in some corners of the land I have fused some crystal images from common grains of sand If I haven't reached the heavens, I've surely learned to fly I've been caught up in t

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

I'm the green young gentleman And you're the lady with the past I admit I'm insecure about How long we will last I sort through in my mind The little that I know But the only things I find From where

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

They just told me take a pause Here between the takes at the studio And you came into my mind It's kind of funny, for you were the cause Of me being here on the radio And though that's another time

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

If you were looking for a way to make me mad It was a sure fire way you found, acting like a half wit fool Laying your money around, well, I came back here to tell you Lou 'Bout what you almost did D

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

I am born today, the sun burns its promise in my eyes Mama strikes me and I draw a breath and cry Above me a cloud softly tumbles through the sky I am glad to be alive It is my seventh day, I taste t

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

It seems like two months 'Though I met her tonight Something just told me It would work out alright So I asked her to act out What was there in our heads No need for games, babe Let's hop into bed, t

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

Of course I picked a rainy night To try to find our past The street lights all were flickering The leaves were falling fast I walked down the winding road Looked up through the trees And I saw the co

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

By the time I was thirteen I started takin' shape At eighteen I was so beautiful that the strangers started to gape They told me enter the ultimate contest If you're as gorgeous as you seem They said,

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

Oh, barefoot boy Once he came unto a land Of forests and of streams That tumbled through The meadows to the sea He called it home For many were its wonders And he learned to live upon the land Taking

by Harry Chapin on album Miscellaneous

He's the man with the banjo and a 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 going