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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

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 Harry Chapin Classics

It was an early morning bar room And the place just opened up And the little man come in so fast and started at his cup And the broad who served the whiskey She was a big ol' friendly girl And she tri

by Harry Chapin on album Harry Chapin Classics

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 Harry Chapin Classics

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 Harry Chapin Classics

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 Harry Chapin Classics

Did you ever hear the one about... Oh, God I love myself When i've got it on i know I'll live forever babe All my fears are gone Then suddenly I'm dying They turned the laugh track off I'm drowning