Harry Chapin Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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.

  Harry Chapin

  Song, Eye, Men

  Song: She Sings Songs Without Words, 1974

• And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
  Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

  Harry Chapin

  Song, Cat, Boys

  Song: Cat's in the Cradle, 1974

• 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.

  Harry Chapin

  Girl, Song, Strong

  Song: Why Do Little Girls, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

• 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.

  Harry Chapin

  Sweet, Song, Jesus

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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