Chapin, Harry - Dreams Go By Lyrics

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Tell her how you feel. Why are you here, anyway?

I was at this concert in San Diego. This was my very first one. I remember them saying it was being recorded for an album. I bought the album and had my ticket stubs taped inside.

So So sad. I wish I could go back to this time when everyone was still alive.

I never could afford this album. Harry Chapin, i subscibed to.

went to every concert he had in kc.mo.

Wish I could have seen him in concert

just wish there was a video to watch with this great music

It's a super scary song when you think about it https://toiletreads.com/2019/04/01/dreams-go-by/

This album had the perfect name. Greatest stories live. They're not songs but stories. Thanks Harry, you are greatly missed!

Damn I miss Harry!! RIP.

Sorry, 72yrs. Listening again like when Harrry was in Hamilton!

I bought the LP in '80. I was 15 then. Started listening to folk music and other genres. I still have the LP. worn well and one of my favs..still played on the same Thorens turntable , crazy

My Dad gave me his record collection, all vintage releases and this is one i always love to spin! One of my first musical memories is a live show my dad taped off the radio, part of the coffee with harry series from the Cleveland Agora. Will always love Harry Chapin!

Circle is my favourite song on this album

2real4me.

still have the album-just got the C.D.

Greatly Missed !

My favorite album! Miss Harry Chapin. Saw him at least 3 times live, and had tickets to see him in Phoenix yet again but he was killed away right before that show.. So sad! But the privilege of seeing him in a little high school auditorium in Santa Cruz, CA years ago, when it was just him and his guitar - no band, no backup. - bring back the best memories When he needed a duet, he would bring up someone from the audience. OMG! Probably the best "concert" I'd ever attended.

"Harry, don't mess it up...."

👍👍👍👍

"There are songs I should have sung" that line gets me all the time. What's sad is that he never got to meet his grandchildren.

Oh my.. after decades of owning this album, I just this moment saw something on the cover photo that is totally blowing my mind! I have to wonder how many other people have ever seen it.. or perhaps even the reason they used the picture in the first place. Who knows. Okay.. ready?? If you look at the very bottom right of his hair.. you will see a small profile of Harry's face in the blur. Check it out. See it?? That is SO cool! It actually looks more like Harry than the straight-on photo does!

What kind of asswipe steels the man's album then sticks a bunch of crappy commercials between the songs. Thanks for fucking up a great Album.

It isn't the channel owner/poster who does that... it's the YouTube ad department.

We had tickets to see him in Buffalo. Unfortunately, the day before the concert was the day he was in that horrific car crash

Love it !

you're suposta dream while you are young...

The best!

Harry's music will never go old. Still miss him.

Listening to this song as I am apt to do, brought me an urge to create a poem that is probably applicable to a lot of us that enjoyed Harry's work, and especially this song. I hope you like it.

OLDER, YET I STILL DREAM

Though I know I'm older still;
Over the top of an unnamed hill;
And yet I dream a young man’s thoughts,
Of unfollowed paths and dreams to be sought.

The song says dream while you are young
And yet I must look forward some
To that which truly lies ahead
This life I share with the woman I wed.


The time I have left, though short it may seem
Will be time well spent, as I live my dream
This dream unfolds every day of my life
 I thank God I  share this dream with my wife.
 

©2016 Old Dude Publishing

jerrodsdad great words mate..harry wouldve approved

I agree with Michael King. Harry would definitely have approved.

very good!

Greatest storyteller ever!!!!

0:47 song start

Well, I'm afraid that your lyrics from "The Harry Chapin archive" are wrong!....1. "But I guess our dreams must wait a while", 2. "You'll find a home, I'll get a Job". 3. "Winds that blow". 4. "You're s'posed to dream when you are young". Just a few examples, but I find It difficult to understand why your ears don't seem to work correctly regarding Harry's lyrics, considering you're such a fan. I'm not criticising, but It doesn't exactly do a lot for the memory of this underestimated talent.

Harry was famous for changing the lyrics of a song on the fly in live concerts.

@Craig Bell Well I guess so, but the matching tracks on the studio album and live album that I have are pretty much Identical, apart from 'I wanna learn a love song' where "Kinda Crass and corny....more than a little bit horny" changes to "Kinda lean and lazy....more than a little bit crazy", but that was probably a conscious decision for younger listeners! But I do see your point. 

Life has changed,this music is a thing of the past,so sad.

luv n miss

how on earth could i have forgotten this song & how many others are out there!

. this never gets old just better I miss you Harry you're one of the greats

This song "Makes me feel so happy and it makes me feel so good."

This is the album I had Harry autograph when I met him at a mall in Flint, Michigan in the late 1970s. I still have it. I first saw him perform at a World Hunger concert at Cobo Arena in Detroit. Along with Harry were John Denver and Gordon Lightfoot plus a "special surprise guest" which turned out to be James Taylor. I also saw him perform at Rochester, Michigan, and at Lansing. At Rochester he sang a lot of his songs from 'Dance Band on the Titanic'. He performed solo at Lansing because his band was snow bound at Valparaiso but he still managed to blow the roof off the joint. It was the first time I heard him sing "Circle." What a song! The last Chapin concert I attended was in Orlando, FL. It wasn't long after that he was killed. Way back when I had a cassette of the now hard-to-find 'Legends of the Lost and Found' but my toddler daughter found it and pulled all the tape out of it.

Wow. I thought I was lucky to have seen him at the Mosque in Richmond, VA. He did miss a show. Or two. Or three. It was amazing and wonderful.

That was Olympia Stadium...in the round. His voice was hoarse...could barely sing... from being on the radio all day, raising $$$ in a hunger tele-thon.

I first saw him in New Bern, North Carolina, on July 4, 1976 at a free outdoor concert he gave for the bi-centennial. I saw him again a few years later at the Bayfront Center in St. Pete, Florida, and again at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. I was totally broken up when he got killed in that car crash....

Thanks for posting this great album.  I've always loved it.

Thanks for posting :) I saw him in DC in 82 I think, best show I have ever been to!

I highly doubt it was in '82

@Minecraft OFP857 correct
he died in 1981

I completely wore my cassette of this album out. One of the best albums of all times.

Vic Goodman I have it on my iPod play it all the time bloody awesome album

Certainly one of my favorite albums of all time.

Great music

Would have loved to see one of his concerts. RIP Harry.

@Kevin Luce they were the best conserts I ever saw. I tried not to miss him whenever he came to Phonix. Love this man.

Thanks for posting!  LOVED this album.
I've got it bookmarked to cheer me up when I need a pick-me-up.

That line "there are songs I should have sung" gets me every time... I wish we could have heard those songs.
I am 18 years old and I grew up on Harry Chapin, it started with my grandma, then my mom and now me... And I certainly won't be the last. <3

Well said. Such an amazing man. The beautiful songs he could have given us & all the good he would have done in this world- it blows my mind. Gone much too soon- but forever in our hearts!

I will never forget the first time I heard cats in the cradle and I want to write a love song, my heart just burst, it was an amazin feeling to hear this man singing stories not just songs! I still listening to him today and my 15yr old autistic son loves his voice!

why cant in 2013 we have story teller's like harry ? another one gone too soon

The best live act I ever saw. So sad that he left us so soon . . ..as so many of the gifted do.

I agree whole-heartedly.

I make very few exceptions on live songs
Harry Chapin, Garth Brooks, and a few you wouldn't recognize...
Just because the live is so much more than the canned

never a better teller of poignant stories.....

couldnt have said it better.just wish i could have seen video!

I've been playing guitar and singing most of my life, and whenever I pick up my guitar, I'll always start with some of Harry's best music. Everyone I play for, always wants more. And why not, his writing was genius. The passion and experience is what makes him one of the best ever. Heaven is a better place with Harry in it. All our lifes a circle indeed!

Greyhound is on You Tube

I agree with you 100% Live audiences made Harry's songs so much better, I saw him 6 times from 1977-1981

This album is what made me go see him in concert, I saw him 6 times from 1977 to 1981

Harry was the best performer I have ever seen. His live performances were all better than the studio versions. The studio versions do not appear to have the same passion. I have always felt Harry enjoyed performing his music in front of an audience and was fueled by rhe pleasure his music brought to the audience.

Does anyone know where I can find his Take the Greyhound? It's one of my favorites by H.C. Can't find it anywhere. Thanks for this posting. Great memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBGOL5gVono

Harry recorded has NOTHING on Harry live.

@tlsmith1138
And all the while our dreams go by

Agreed, sjplwc... My Mom played this album all through my youth and the energy in the place comes through with so much power that is lacking in the studio versions. Circle was always my favorite growing up... Still brings a tear to my eye...

Generally, I prefer studio versions of songs to their "live" counterparts - however, I make an exception for Harry Chapin in this regard. Having heard these covers live, I find the original (studio) versions nearly unendurable. These live performances are so superior- this, particularly, is one of my favorite songs of all time. A gorgeous, joyful celebration of life. Particularly poignant when u consider he was never able to experience most of these delights owing to his premature death.

@nutballgazette Oh, I know what today is, hon, trust me :-) Thanks to SongsofHarry uploading so many treats, I've been working on upgrading my YT playlist all week and am tweeting 30 of Harry's best tunes today in celebration (weird word for his death, I know, but you know what I mean). I knew what John Lennon meant to people when he died. Harry was my Lennon.

@TinyDancer500 After I saw him the 1st time It was a must see whenever he toured near me. You do know that Saturday will be the 30th anniversary of his death, Next to losing members my family and 9/11 and the day the challenger blew up that was the saddest day in my life.

@nutballgazette SO jealous here, Larry, you lucky, lucky man! Having only heard his songs on the radio at this point, this album was quite the revelation to me. What a fun entertainer! Didn't take me much longer to fill in my record collection from there, but I never had the chance to see him live. I'm 47 now and have very few real regrets, but that's my biggie.

This album is what got me into becoming a harry Chapin Fan, I saw him every year from 1976 through 1981 at least once a year. Met him and talked to him in all but one after every concert, The only time he did not stay he was doing up to testify in front of the House of Representatives along with John Denver, and Kenny Rogers about Hunger in the World.