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Harry Forster Chapin è stato un cantautore statunitense noto per le sue canzoni folk rock come Taxi, W*O*L*D ed il successo Cat's in the Cradle che arrivò prima nella Billboard Hot 100 nel dicembre 1974.

Chapin era anche un filantropo impegnato a combattere per la fame nel mondo, per aver ispirato l’industria della musica progetti come USA for Africa, Live Aid e Hands across America. Perse la vita il 16 luglio 1981, a 38 anni e all'apice della sua carriera, per un arresto cardiaco a seguito di un terribile incidente stradale.

✵ 7. Dicembre 1942 – 16. Luglio 1981
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Harry Chapin: Frasi in inglese

“And the wind will whip your tousled hair,
The sun, the rain, the sweet despair,
Great tales of love and strife.
And somewhere on your path to glory
You will write your story of a life.”

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Harry Chapin

Story of a Life
Song lyrics, Sequel (1981)

“Something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?”

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Harry Chapin

What Made America Famous?
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)

“And if our future
Lies on the final line
Are we brave enough
To see the signals and the signs?”

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I Wonder What Would Happen to this World
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)

“Sometimes I get this crazy dream
And I just take off in my car
But you can travel on ten thousand miles
And still stay where you are.”

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W*O*L*D
Song lyrics, Short Stories (1974)

“They put the cold dirt over him and left me on my own
And when at last I looked up I saw I was not alone
So I said— If you're a relative, he had a peaceful end.
She said— My name is Corey— you can say I'm just a friend.”

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Corey's Coming
Song lyrics, On the Road to Kingdom Come (1976)

“It took a while, but she looked in the mirror,
And she glanced at the license for my name.
A smile seemed to come to her slowly,
It was a sad smile, just the same.
And she said, "How are you Harry?"
I said, "How are you Sue?
Through the too many miles
and the too little smiles
I still remember you."”

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Taxi
Song lyrics, Heads & Tales (1972)

“You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind
I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.”

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I Wonder What Happened to Him
Song lyrics, Dance Band on the Titanic (1977)

“But the little boy said…
"There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flowers and I see every one."”

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Flowers are Red
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)

“I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous.
I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school.
Of the America that made America famous…and
Of the people who just might understand
That how together yes we can
Create a country better than
The one we have made of this land,
We have a choice to make each man
who dares to dream, reaching out his hand
A prophet or just a crazy God damn
Dreamer of a fool.”

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What Made America Famous?
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)

“Corey's coming, no more sad stories coming
My midnight-moonlight-morning-glory's coming aren't you girl?
And like I told you, when she holds you
She enfolds you in her world.”

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Corey's Coming
Song lyrics, On the Road to Kingdom Come (1976)

“I come fresh from the street,
fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy;
not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone,
and more than a little bit crazy.
The old six string was all I had
to keep my belly still,
and for each full hour lesson I gave
I got a crisp ten dollar bill.”

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I Wanna Learn a Love Song
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)

“I found you a thousand times;
I guess you done the same;
But then we lose each other;
It's like a children's game;
As I find you here again;
A thought runs through my mind;
Our love is like a circle;
Let's go 'round one more time.”

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Circle
Song lyrics, Sniper and Other Love Songs (1972)

“You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly.
She took off to find the footlights,
And I took off for the sky.
And here, she's acting happy,
Inside her handsome home.
And me, I'm flying in my taxi,
Taking tips, and getting stoned,
I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.”

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Taxi
Song lyrics, Heads & Tales (1972)

“Music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
And it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.”

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Mr. Tanner
Song lyrics, Short Stories (1974)

“I guess it's a sequel to our story
From the journey 'tween heaven and hell
With half the time thinking of what might have been
and half thinkin' just as well.
I guess only time will tell.”

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Sequel
Song lyrics, Sequel (1981)

“It was the town that made America famous.
The churches full and the kids all gone to hell.
Six traffic lights and seven cops and all the streets kept clean.
The supermarket and the drug store and the bars all doing well.”

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What Made America Famous?
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)

“Oh God they got you gun shy
You know your skin's as cold as ice
Your eyes are double filtered babe
You're so afraid to be nice
There's no way you're ready
To let your defenses down
Though I won't come on heavy
There is a lesson that I've found.”

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If You Want to Feel
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)

“And all the trips you know you missed
And all the lips you never kissed
Cut through you like a knife.
And now you see stretched out before thee
Just another story of a life.”

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Story of a Life
Song lyrics, Sequel (1981)

“And I feel that something's coming, and it's not just in the wind.
It's more than just tomorrow, it's more than where we've been,
It offers me a promise, it's telling me "Begin",
I know we're needing something worth believing in.”

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Remember When the Music
Song lyrics, Sequel (1981)

“He was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights below him.
But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights
delights went through him.
His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down.
But the pedal floored easy without a sound.
He said "Christ!"
It was funny how he had named the only man who could save him now.
He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide,
riding on his fear-hunched back
was every one of those yellow green
I'm telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of bananas.”

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30,000 Pounds of Bananas
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)

“That's when I asked her where was that actress
She said "That was somebody else"
And then I asked her why she looked so happy now
She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself."”

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Sequel
Song lyrics, Sequel (1981)

“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."”

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Flowers are Red
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)

“Mr. Martin Tanner, a baritone, of Dayton, Ohio made his Town Hall debut last night. He came well prepared, but unfortunately his presentation was not up to contemporary professional standards. His voice lacks the range of tonal color necessary to make it consistently interesting.
Full time consideration of another endeavor might be in order.”

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Mr. Tanner
Song lyrics, Short Stories (1974)

“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.”

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Short Stories
Song lyrics, Short Stories (1974)

“Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire
And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire,
For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.”

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Remember When the Music
Song lyrics, Sequel (1981)

“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?”

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Short Stories
Song lyrics, Short Stories (1974)

“He was dancing to some music
No one else had ever heard
He'd speak in unknown languages
She would translate every word
And then when the world was laughing
At his castles in the sky
She'd hold him in her body
Till he once again could fly.”

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Shooting Star
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)

“I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic
Singing "Nearer my God to thee"
and the icebergs on the starboard bow
Won't you dance with me?”

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Dance Band On the Titanic
Song lyrics, Dance Band on the Titanic (1977)

“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?”

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It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)

“He went up on the mountain beside the giant stone
They knew he was insane so they left him alone
He'd given up enlisting help for there was no one else
He spent his days devising ways to stop the rock himself
One night while he was working building braces on the ledge
The ground began to rumble the rock trembled on the edge.”

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The Rock
Song lyrics, Portrait Gallery (1975)

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