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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER

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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
995-Harry Chapin-Cat’s in the Cradle.
1974-Has never charted in the UK.
Best Bit-At 3.09. You have to be 18 to vote, 18 to drink alcohol, 17 to drive, but only 16 to have sex. If prospective parents had to have compulsory lessons on how to bring up children, then there would be less need for a song like this.
The lyrics were actually written by Harry Chapin’s wife Sandra as a poem, years before Harry wrote the music. Sandra was inspired by the awkward relationship between her first husband, and his father. After the birth of the Chapin’s son Josh, Harry remembered the poem, realising that he too was getting caught up in the same situation, he wrote the music, admitting, ‘Frankly, this song scares me to death.’ It went onto become Chapin’s most successful recording reaching Number 1 in America, and Canada, in 1974 (see also best songs 474.)
This sad tale tells of a father who is so caught up in work, providing for his family that he never has any quality time to spend with his son. The years fly by, until one day when the father has retired, he requests a meeting with his son, but the father is told by his son that due to his own work commitments, he hasn’t time for them to meet up. The father suddenly realises, his son has grown up just like him.
‘And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me, he’d grown up just like me, my boy was just like me.’
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