"Where In The World Is Harry Chapin Tonight"

[rsdean]

Hi Everyone,

Happy New Year! Here's a song I've been meaning to write for a number of years using some of my favorite Chapin song titles - I finally finished and recorded it. Hope you enjoy and thanks for listening...

Bob

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"Where In The World Is Harry Chapin Tonight"

On the road to kingdom come
Could you put the light on please
Someone keeps calling my name
And why should people stay the same
Do you remember when the music
Is what made America famous
The day they closed the factory down
Made them legends of the lost and found

Chorus:
Dancin' boy
Love is just another word
So I keep it up on the shelf
Paint a picture of yourself
Just another story of a life
Where in the world is Harry Chapin tonight

She sings songs without words
She is always seventeen
Dreams go by, everybody's lonely
God babe you've been good to me
I wanna learn a love song
I don't want to be president
Cat's in the cradle, flowers are red
You can't come in from the rain somebody said

Chorus: repeat

Sunday morning sunshine
Short stories and a shooting star
Stranger with the melodies
I finally found it, Sandy
Danceband on the Titanic
Gotta stop singing these sad songs
Mail order Annie catching a taxi
One light in a dark valley

Chorus: end
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[stevieb]

Good and interesting song. But I can't say that collectively, the lyrics make much sense. More of an "impressionistic" thing, I suppose.

 

[rsdean]

Stevieb, thanks for the listen - much appreciated. I think it helps to be a Chapin fan and know his music - the lyrics would then make a bit more sense to the listener.

Bob

 

[stevieb]

I do know Chapin, and appreciate all the references- it's just that the lines from all those songs do not lend themselves to a fully logical train of thought. Now, I think you could pull various lines from Chapin's songs and they form a cohesive lyric- it's just that those are not quite there.