Biography:
Harry Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer and songwriter. Chapin's debut album, Heads and Tales (1972), was a success thanks to the single "Taxi". His follow-up album, Sniper and Other Love Songs, was less successful; but his third, Short Stories, was a major success. Verities & Balderdash, released soon after, was even more successful, bolstered by the chart-topping hit single "Cat's in the Cradle". He also wrote and performed a Broadway musical, The Night That Made America Famous.
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Other songs:
- Cats In The Cradle
- Circle
- Dreams Go By
- Tangled Up Puppet
- Cat’s In The Cradle
- 30000 Pounds Of Bananas
- A Better Place To Be
- A Better Place To Be Version 2
- All My Lifes A Circle
- Any Old Kind Of Day
- Better Place To Be
- Copper
- Coreys Coming
- Coreys Coming Long
- Could You Put Your Light On Please
- Flowers Are Red
- I Wanna Learn A Love Song
- I Wonder What Happened To Him
- I Wonder What Would Happen To This World
- Jenny
- Last Of The Protest Singers
- Last Stand
- Let Time Go Lightly
- Mail Order Annie
- Mr Tanner
- November Rains
- Old Folkie
- Poor Damned Fool
- Remember When The Music
- Saturday Morning
- Sequel
- She Is Always Seventeen
- Shooting Star
- Six String Orchestra
- Story Of A Life
- Stranger With The Melodies
- Sunday Morning Sunshine
- Taxi
- The Rock
- The Shortest Story
- What Made America Famous
- Wold
- You Are The Only Song
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I can see myself it's a golden sunrise
Em
Young boy open up your eyes
Am
It's supposed to be your day
C
Now off you go horizon bound
D
And you won't stop until you've found
G
Your own kind of way
G
And the wind will whip your tousled hair
Em
The sun, the rain, the sweet despair,
Am
Great tales of love and strife
C
And somewhere on your path to glory
D G
You will write your story of a life
[Verse 2]
G
And all the towns that you walk through
Em
And all the people that you talk to
Am
Sing you their songs
C
And there are times you change your stride
D
There are times you can't decide
G
Still you go on
G
And then the young girls dance their gypsy tunes
Em
And share the secrets of the moon
Am
So soon you find a wife
C
And though she sees your dreams go poorly
D G
Still she joins your story of a life
Em G
[Verse 3]
G
So you settle down and the children come
Em
And you find a place that you come from
Am
Your wandering is done
C
And all your dreams of open spaces
D
You find in your children's faces
G
One by one
G
And all the trips you know you missed
Em
And all the lips you never kissed
Am
Cut through you like a knife
C D
And now you see stretched out before thee
G
Just another story of a life
[Bridge]
D
So what do you do now?
Em
When she looks at you now?
F
You know those same old jokes all the jesters tell
G
You tell them to her now
F
And all the same old songs all the minstrels sang
G
You sing 'em to her now
D
But it don't matter anyhow
Em
'Cause she knows by now
[Verse 4]
G
So every chance you take don't mean a thing
Em
What variations can you bring
Am
To this shop worn melody
C
And the years roll by like a tollin' bell
D
It's battered merchandise you sell
G
Not well she can see
G
And though she's heard it all a thousand times
Em
Couched in your attempted rhymes
Am
She'll march to your drum and fife
C
But the question that goes up before me
D G
Where's my magic story of a life?
[Verse 5]
G
Now sometimes words can serve me well
Em
Sometimes words can go to hell
Am
For all that they do
C
And for every dream that took me high
D
There's been a dream that's passed me by
G
I know it's so true
G
And I can see it clear out to the end
Em
And I'll whisper to her now again
Am
Because she shared my life
C
For more than all the ghosts of glory
D
She makes up the story
Am D
She's the only story
Am7 D G
Of my life
G
[Verse 1]
G
I can see myself it's a golden sunrise
Em
Young boy open up your eyes
Am
It's supposed to be your day
C
Now off you go horizon bound
D
And you won't stop until you've found
G
Your own kind of way
G
And the wind will whip your tousled hair
Em
The sun, the rain, the sweet despair,
Am
Great tales of love and strife
C
And somewhere on your path to glory
D G
You will write your story of a life
[Verse 2]
G
And all the towns that you walk through
Em
And all the people that you talk to
Am
Sing you their songs
C
And there are times you change your stride
D
There are times you can't decide
G
Still you go on
G
And then the young girls dance their gypsy tunes
Em
And share the secrets of the moon
Am
So soon you find a wife
C
And though she sees your dreams go poorly
D G
Still she joins your story of a life
Em G
[Verse 3]
G
So you settle down and the children come
Em
And you find a place that you come from
Am
Your wandering is done
C
And all your dreams of open spaces
D
You find in your children's faces
G
One by one
G
And all the trips you know you missed
Em
And all the lips you never kissed
Am
Cut through you like a knife
C D
And now you see stretched out before thee
G
Just another story of a life
[Bridge]
D
So what do you do now?
Em
When she looks at you now?
F
You know those same old jokes all the jesters tell
G
You tell them to her now
F
And all the same old songs all the minstrels sang
G
You sing 'em to her now
D
But it don't matter anyhow
Em
'Cause she knows by now
[Verse 4]
G
So every chance you take don't mean a thing
Em
What variations can you bring
Am
To this shop worn melody
C
And the years roll by like a tollin' bell
D
It's battered merchandise you sell
G
Not well she can see
G
And though she's heard it all a thousand times
Em
Couched in your attempted rhymes
Am
She'll march to your drum and fife
C
But the question that goes up before me
D G
Where's my magic story of a life?
[Verse 5]
G
Now sometimes words can serve me well
Em
Sometimes words can go to hell
Am
For all that they do
C
And for every dream that took me high
D
There's been a dream that's passed me by
G
I know it's so true
G
And I can see it clear out to the end
Em
And I'll whisper to her now again
Am
Because she shared my life
C
For more than all the ghosts of glory
D
She makes up the story
Am D
She's the only story
Am7 D G
Of my life
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