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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From: [email protected] (MR KEN L REYNOLDS)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:04:55, -0500
Subject: c/chapin_harry/shooting_star.pro
album: Vereties and Balderdash
song: Shooting Star
artist: Harry Chapin
transcribed: Ken Reynolds
Here is an oldie and a goodie. Enjoy.
Shooting Star
Harry Chapin (klr)
[Em] He was crazy, of course
>From the [C] first she must have known it
But [D] still she went on [Bm] with him
And she [G] never once had [Em] shown it
And she took him off the street
And she [C] dried his tears of grieving
She [D] listened to his [Bm] visions
She be [G] lieved in his be [Em] lieving
[C] He was the sun burning bright and brittle
And [D] she was the moon shining back his light a little
[C] He was a shooting star
[Bm] She was softer and more slowly
He [A] could not make things possible
But [C] she could make them holy, Holy [Em]
[Em] He was dancing to some music
No one [C] else had ever heard
He'd [D] speak in unknown [Bm] languages
And she would [G] translate every [Em] word
And when the world was laughing
At his [C] castles in the sky
She'd [D] hold him in her [Bm] body
Until he [G] once again could [Em] fly
[C] He was the sun burning bright and brittle
And [D] she was the moon shining back his light a little
[C] He was a shooting star
[Bm] She was softer and more slowly
He [A] could not make things possible
But [C] she could make them holy, Holy [Em]
She [G] gave him a daughter and she [D] gave him a son
She was a [Bm] mother and a wife
And a [Em] lover when the day was done
He was to [G] far gone for giving love
What he [D] offered in its stead
Was the [Bm] knowledge she was the only thing
That [Em] was not in his [G] head [D] - [Em]
[Em] He took off east one morning
Towards the [C] rising sun's red glow
She [D] knew he was going [Bm] nowhere
But of [G] course she let him [Em] go
And as she stood and watched him dwindle
Much too [C] empty to be sad
He [D] reappeared be [Bm] side her
Saying "You're [G] all I've ever [Em] had"
[C] He was the sun burning bright and brittle
And [D] she was the moon shining back his light a little
[C] He was a shooting star
[Bm] She was softer and more slowly
He [A] could not make things possible
But [C] she could make them holy, Holy [Em]
I hope you all enjoy that one.
I have a wide variety of popular artist and
venues for audio tape trading. Contact me at
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my list to you.
Ken Reynolds
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the#
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From: [email protected] (MR KEN L REYNOLDS)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:04:55, -0500
Subject: c/chapin_harry/shooting_star.pro
album: Vereties and Balderdash
song: Shooting Star
artist: Harry Chapin
transcribed: Ken Reynolds
Here is an oldie and a goodie. Enjoy.
Shooting Star
Harry Chapin (klr)
[Em] He was crazy, of course
>From the [C] first she must have known it
But [D] still she went on [Bm] with him
And she [G] never once had [Em] shown it
And she took him off the street
And she [C] dried his tears of grieving
She [D] listened to his [Bm] visions
She be [G] lieved in his be [Em] lieving
[C] He was the sun burning bright and brittle
And [D] she was the moon shining back his light a little
[C] He was a shooting star
[Bm] She was softer and more slowly
He [A] could not make things possible
But [C] she could make them holy, Holy [Em]
[Em] He was dancing to some music
No one [C] else had ever heard
He'd [D] speak in unknown [Bm] languages
And she would [G] translate every [Em] word
And when the world was laughing
At his [C] castles in the sky
She'd [D] hold him in her [Bm] body
Until he [G] once again could [Em] fly
[C] He was the sun burning bright and brittle
And [D] she was the moon shining back his light a little
[C] He was a shooting star
[Bm] She was softer and more slowly
He [A] could not make things possible
But [C] she could make them holy, Holy [Em]
She [G] gave him a daughter and she [D] gave him a son
She was a [Bm] mother and a wife
And a [Em] lover when the day was done
He was to [G] far gone for giving love
What he [D] offered in its stead
Was the [Bm] knowledge she was the only thing
That [Em] was not in his [G] head [D] - [Em]
[Em] He took off east one morning
Towards the [C] rising sun's red glow
She [D] knew he was going [Bm] nowhere
But of [G] course she let him [Em] go
And as she stood and watched him dwindle
Much too [C] empty to be sad
He [D] reappeared be [Bm] side her
Saying "You're [G] all I've ever [Em] had"
[C] He was the sun burning bright and brittle
And [D] she was the moon shining back his light a little
[C] He was a shooting star
[Bm] She was softer and more slowly
He [A] could not make things possible
But [C] she could make them holy, Holy [Em]
I hope you all enjoy that one.
I have a wide variety of popular artist and
venues for audio tape trading. Contact me at
< [email protected] > and I will e-mail
my list to you.
Ken Reynolds
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