Тексты песен «Harry Chapin»

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 bananas. He was a...

A Better Place To Be Lyrics 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 cups. And the broad who served the whisky She was a big old friendly...

It was an early morning bar room And the place just opened up And the little man come in so fast and it Started at his cups And the broad who served the whiskey She was a big old friendly girl And tried to fight her...

Holdin' on tight to my pillow Wish it had a life of its own, Starin' at the ceilin,' Such a funny feelin,' But nobody's home. But I know you're out there somewhere And that you feel the same way too, Now my only problem...

When I met America, I didn't know her name But it seems she was something special even then I knew it just the same Yes, I loved the things she stood for Help the helpless make people free And I knew that an American...

Well, I've sung out one more evening Yes I'm wrung out, feeling beat And I walk on out the door once more To an empty city street A good guitar will serve you well When you're living in the lights But it's never going...

She wasn't very pretty, She wasn't very smart, But everything she said to him came strait from her heart. Write a song about me, Sing a song that's of my day, Everybody special in there ordinary way. CHORUS: Looking...

Turning on my pillow, thinking kind of strange The color is of midnight in this room The cars outside are coughing And it's kind of hard to sleep And there's neon out the window, not the moon And it was just an any old...

When I rearrange the pieces of the puzzle of my past I sigh at the heartaches, relive the laughs And I think about the moments that have left their mark And the too few faces that shine a little light in the dark If...

Oh, barefoot boy Once he came unto a land Of forests and of streams That tumbled through The meadows to the sea He called it home For many were its wonders And he learned to live upon the land Taking only what he...

CHORUS: So your 13 and there's a silent scream out there, And you can hear it. Just your basic protest song. Now your 16 and there's a danger in the air, And you can see it. Just your basic protest song. Turnin' 20...

The kid heard the word up in Brooklyn It was his second year of medical school He went and stashed some jeans into his guitar case His father said, "You're a fool" But the boy jumped on board a Greyhound bus It took him...

His mama was a midnight woman His daddy was a drifter drummer One night they put it together Nine months later came the little black bummer He was a laid back lump in the cradle Chewing the paint chips that fell from...

She was crazy (She was beautiful) I guess she had to be And I was angry (You were blind) Because I could not see Except for what her cigarettes Had done to her skin I should have known the outside world Would reveal...

I could tell you that, I get asked a lot of times, how I can change the world. I've also have been asked a lot of times, how I can be a rock and roll singer, and do you see what's on the end of my fingers? Calluses, and...

Caroline Comes from the rain Glistening and shivering She laughs as she shakes off the weather Caroline Whispers her words Saying she'll always love me At least when we are together Caroline Starts closing in

My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away. And he was talking 'fore I knew it, and as he grew,...

I was cramped into a coffee house pew Two dollar coke in my hand Listening to the music run Through and out of a drowning man. Ten years ago I first heard him singing To a screaming crazy crowd Now there's thirteen...

Chorus: All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; The 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 keep...

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't you ever put...