by Harry Chapin on album The Bottom Line Encore Collection: Harry Chapin

Mercenaries by Harry Chapin It's a slow motion night In the hot city lights Past time when the good folks Are snoring in bed On a loose-jointed cruise To recolor your blues With illegal notions alive

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

Harry: "And the excitement continues to build! Eat your heart out, Peter Frampton.") It seems like two months 'Though I met her tonight Something just told me It would work out alright So I asked her

by Harry Chapin on album Classic Hits of Harry Chapin

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 Classic Hits of Harry Chapin

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: Harry Chapin

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 Harry Chapin Classics

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

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 Harry Chapin Classics

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 Harry Chapin Classics

He's the little pretzel man, he's got his twisted pretzel hands He's got his a pretzel wife, that he's loved all his pretzel life And he's got himself a pretzel girl, that they both brought into their

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

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 Don

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

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 Harry Chapin Classics

It was my first night in that rooming house. In the last room down the hall I heard a hoarse voice and an old guitar Coming through the paper thin walls. A crazy nonsense nursery rhyme that did not me

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

Have you ever been up Have you ever been down Have you ever been lost Have you ever been found Have you ever been right Have you ever been wrong Have you come up short Can you come along Have you left

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

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 Harry Chapin Classics

old john joseph was a man with two first names they left him in the railroad yard when they took away the trains. and only one run a week comes on roaring down that line So all he got to worry 'bout i

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

He was crazy of course From the first she must have known it But still she went on with him And she never once had shown it And she took him off the street And she dried his tears of grieving She list

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

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 Harry Chapin Classics

It was just another night and I was out on a limb looking for someone to help me back in. A couple of hours of cruising around brought me into a bar and I sat me down nothing much to be found. So I go

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

It was just after dark when the truck started down the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania. Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas. Carrying thirty thousand pounds (hit it Big John) of bana

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, Kinda crass and corny. Not much meat on my bones and a whole lotta loans and more than a little bit horny. The old six string was all i had, to keep my