They Call Her Easy Harry Chapin

If you find her she will take you home. She don't like to spend her nights alone!" They call her Easy. They say it's not a way for a body to be. They call her Easy.

Woman Child Harry Chapin

I was an early morning phone call. What news have I received. A halting voice is telling me, what we have both conceived, asking how the dilemma, how can it be releived?

Halfway to Heaven Harry Chapin

They set me up so perfectly Gave me their morality And then changed the rules they set for me.

She Sings Songs Without Words Harry Chapin

I was thrown on the cobblestones, tossed at her feet My fool's mouth was filled with the dust from the street An out of work court jester with nowhere to go And no need to speak, for she seemed to

I Wanna Learn a Love Song Harry Chapin

still And for each full-hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill She was married for seven years To a concrete castle king She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar And to hear her

Sniper Harry Chapin

Gibbons above her right eye. It blew her through the window wedged her against the door. Reality poured from her face, staining the floor. He was kind of creepy, Sort of a dunce.

A Better Place To Be Harry Chapin

Now I'm not much of a mover, or a pick-em-up easy guy, But I decided to glide on over, and give her one good try. And Lord, Lord, Lord she was worth a try.

I Want To Learn a Love Song Harry Chapin

She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing.

Sequel Harry Chapin

He just shook his head when I asked for her And said "She doesn't live here anymore." But he offered to give me the address That they were forwarding her letters to.

Why Do Little Girls? Harry Chapin

Why did the little girls grow crooked While the little boys grow tall The boys were taught to tumble The girls told not to fall The girls answered the telephone The boys answered the call That's

Why Do Little Girls Harry Chapin

Why did the little girls grow crooked While the little boys grow tall The boys were taught to tumble The girls told not to fall The girls answered the telephone The boys answered the call That's why little

I Miss America Harry Chapin

They said "Enter the ultimate contest If you're as gorgeous as you seem." They said "Please, please, please Be our American dream."

Mercenaries Harry Chapin

answer to dreams That you pay to come true She's got no heart of gold But that's not what she's sold She just sees herself doing what she What she has to do And she's all that you're hoping As her

Salt And Pepper Harry Chapin

I know you call us Salt and Pepper, For an old salt I may be, But though she may be pepper to you, me boys, She's sweet as sugar to me.

Burning Herself Harry Chapin

I saw only what her cigarettes had done to her skin. I should have known the outside world would reveal what was within. She was burning herself, and her hair was filled with ashes.

Dogtown Harry Chapin

The men who make the maps, yes, they call the place Cape Ann. The men who do the fishing call it Glouster Harbor Sound, But the women left behind, they call the place Dogtown.

Corey's Coming Harry Chapin

Old John Joseph was a man with two first names They left him in the railroad yard when they took away the trains Only one run a week comes on roaring down that line So all he's got to worry 'bout is time

And the Baby Never Cries Harry Chapin

And so I come and go with her in whispers. Each and every time she says she dies. When she is reborn again I kiss her. And the baby never cries.

Mail Order Annie Harry Chapin

So you must be my wife Miss Annie Halsey Yes, I guess I am your husband, Hello I'm Harry Crane. Mail Order Annie, never mind your crying. Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life.

Sometime Somewhere Wife Harry Chapin

At times like this I lose my head and think of her. Empty space always ask for filling. I wonder whyI never stopped to marry her. It wasn't 'cause she was not more than willing.

Sometime, Somewhere Wife Harry Chapin

At times like this I lose my head and think of her. Empty space always ask for filling. I wonder whyI never stopped to marry her. It wasn't 'cause she was not more than willing.

30,000 Pounds of bananas (live) Harry Chapin

Just a few more miles to go, Then he\'d go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away. And the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.

Bummer Harry Chapin

They threw him back on the street, he robbed an A & P He didn't blink at the buddy that he shafted And just about the time they would have caught him too He had the damn good fortune to get drafted

Any Old Kind of Day Harry Chapin

And it was just an any old kind of day, The kind that comes and slips away, The kind that fills up easy my life's time. The night brought any old kind of dark, I heard the ticking of my heart.

Caroline Harry Chapin

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

Greyhound Harry Chapin

They punch my ticket I find a seat And we move out past the lights. Come on Driver, where's the heat? It's cold out in the night. I keep telling to myself that I don't care.

Story of a Life Harry Chapin

You know those same old jokes all the jesters tell You tell them to her now. And all the same old songs all the mistrels sang You sing 'em to her now.

Could you put your Light on Please? Harry Chapin

Whatever it was, she knew it was holy, And each time I tried to hold her her smile came sad and slowly. She said, "No one knows me."

Could You Put Your Light On, Please Harry Chapin

Whatever it was, she knew it was holy, And each time I tried to hold her her smile came sad and slowly. She said, "No one knows me." Could you put your light on please, it's kind of dark tonight.

The Rock Harry Chapin

The rock is gonna fall on us, he woke with a start And he ran to his mother, the fear dark in his heart And he told her of the vision that he was sure he'd seen She said: "Go back to sleep son, you're

The Parade's Still Passing By Harry Chapin

I got the news today That you refused to play Cause you never made number one But it's not just the words It's the deeds that are heard When all is said and done Kings take their crowns They melt them

She is Always Seventeen Harry Chapin

For the future's just beginning when you're always seventeen It was nineteen sixty-one when we went to Washington; she put her arms around me and said, "Camelot's begun."

Sandy Harry Chapin

Sandy is the seashore And Sandy is the sea Sandy is the clear blue sky Or so it seems to me Yes I see her everywhere In everything I see She can turn to anything That she would like to be Sandy

There Only Was One Choice Harry Chapin

knew they had nothing to lose They knew it So they just got to it With cracked old Gibsons and red clay shoes Playing 1-4-5 chords like good news And cursed with skin that calls for blood They

The Mayor of Candor Lied Harry Chapin

The Mayor fought my courtship for he'd made other plans He saw her married to a better man than a boy with farmer's hands. I said -- I hate your father, it's so hard not to strike him.

Dirt Gets Under the Fingernails Harry Chapin

And she had paint all over her face.

Taxi Harry Chapin

Something about her was familiar I could swear I'd seen her face before, But she said, "I'm sure you're mistaken" And she didn't say anything more.

Somebody Said Harry Chapin

waves begin Stop thinkin' as you're sinkin' below Or do you take this chance to sail on the wind When so many in the water chose to row Some may curse the crippled Some try to hide the hurt Some they

Stranger with the Melodies Harry Chapin

The sudden void of silence, then I heard that hoarse voice say, "It weren't so long ago boy, they paid me to play " I said, "It's kind of late for music sir, Two hours til it's daylight" He answered

30,000 Pounds of Bananas Harry Chapin

Just a few more miles to go, then he'd go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away. and the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.

Manhood Harry Chapin

She put her clothes back on She straightened up my bed She hit me with a line The still does numbers on my head She says, "Your mind chooses better Than your hands do Your heart chooses better Than

The Day They Closed the Factory Down Harry Chapin

The day they closed the factory down they had nothing, Nothing left to say. She said, "I take care of my momma now, since my father died. I'm raising baby brother, too, the way my father tried.

I Finally Found It, Sandy Harry Chapin

found it Sandy Maybe this time babe you can understand me It really weren't so complicated after all For I've been down so far, I ain't got so far to fall There only is this one bluff left for me to call

Flowers Are Red Harry Chapin

Flowers are red young man Green leaves are green There's no need to see flowers any other way Than the way they always have been seen But the little boy said...

Star Tripper Harry Chapin

on back home now It's a crazy blind man's journey he's been on The startripper's lost and all alone now And it's your face he'd like to look upon Yes, he's praying that you won't be long gone They

Wold Harry Chapin

What did the kids say when they knew it was their long lost daddy-o?

One Light in a Dark Valley Harry Chapin

light in a dark valley And the mist is falling like rain One light in a dark valley And I'm alone again One light in a dark valley And I am all alone One light in a dark valley Is all I can call

Dance Band on the Titanic Harry Chapin

with me Mama stood cryin' at the dockside Sayin' "Please son, don't take this trip" I said "Mama, sweet Mama, don't you worry none" "Even God couldn't sink this ship" Well, the whistle blew and they

The Shortest Story Harry Chapin

She squeezes her breast, but it has nothing to provide; someone weeps, I fall asleep. It is twenty days today, Mama does not hold me anymore; I open my mouth but I am too weak to cry.

W*O*L*D* Harry Chapin

Hello honey, it's me What did you think when you heard me back on the radio What did the kids say when they knew It was their long lost daddy o Remember how we listened to the radio And I said That's the