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Harry Chapin - There Only Was One Choice Lyrics

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  • There's a kid out on my corner -- hear him strumming like a fool
  • Shivering in his dungarees -- but still he's going to school
  • His cheeks are made of peach fuzz -- his hopes may be the same
  • But he's signed up as a soldier out to play the music game
  • There are fake patches on his jacket -- he's used bleach to fade his jeans
  • With a brand new stay pressed shirt -- and some creased and wrinkled dreams
  • His face a blemish garden -- but his eyes are virgin clear
  • His voice is Chicken Little's -- But he's hearing Paul Revere
  • When he catches himself giggling -- he forces up a sneer
  • Though he'd rather have a milk shake -- he keeps forcing down the beer
  • Just another folkie -- late in coming down the pike
  • Riding his guitar -- he left Kid brother with his bike
  • And he's got Guthrie running in his bones
  • He's the hobo kid who's left his home
  • And his Beatles records and the Rolling Stones
  • This boy is staying acoustic.
  • There's Seeger singing in his heart
  • He hopes his songs will somehow start
  • To heal the cracks that split apart
  • America gone plastic
  • And now there's Dylan dripping from his mouth
  • He's hitching himself way down south
  • To learn a little black and blues
  • From old street men who paid their dues
  • 'Cause they 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 put their face and feet in mud
  • But oh they learned the music from way down there
  • The real ones learn it somewhere
  • Strum your guitar -- sing it kid
  • Just write about your feelings -- not the things you never

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