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Harry Chapin Biography

Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter, humanitarian, and producer best known for his folk rock and pop rock songs, who achieved worldwide success in the 1970s and became one of the most popular artists and highest paid performers. He is also one of the best charting musical artists in the United States. Chapin, a Grammy Award winning artist and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee, has sold over 19 million records worldwide.

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The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.

Against, Art, Arts, Decision, Decisions, Fighting

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

Mountain, Rock, Rocks, Slips, Wind

Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle And she was the moon shining back his light a little He was a shooting star She was softer and more slowly He could not make things possible But, she could make them holy.

Holy, Light, Moon, Slowly, Star, Stars

Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

Country, Everyone, Glory, Passion, Prayer, Present

She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

Eye, Eyes, Heard, Knows, Men, Song

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

Business, Comatose, Impact, Reason

We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.

Hundred, Important, Perched, Rocks, Thousand, Years

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.

Cat, Coming, Dad, Home

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

Dream, Flying High, Laughed, Radio, Said

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that. ' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

Afraid, Age, Gee, Knowing, Old, Wish

Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.

Begin, Felt, Pain, Rain, Worry

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

Make, Mistake, Nothing

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Existed, Fact, Facts, Mean, Want

The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said. . "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin' flowers" he said She said. . . "It's not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one.

Anyway, Art, Doin, Flower, Green, Teacher

You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?

Breath, Dream, Light, Love, Needs, Tonight

And I know you're frightened By my laughter But you're not afraid To hold my pain You see I'm never sure Just what you're after, Babe But it seems you only love me When it rains. How come you only love me when it rains?

Afraid, Laughter, Love, Pain, Rain, See

I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

Lasts, Like

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

Better Place, Nowhere, Place

When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar.

Aging, Jesus, Keats, Song, Sweet, Toothless

Why did the little girls grow crippled While the little boys grow strong The boys allowed to come of age The girls just came along The girls were told sing harmonies The boys could all sing songs That's why little girls grew crippled While little boys grew strong.

Boys, Girl, Sing, Song, Strong, Told

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