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The Shortest Story

Harry Chapin

  • Available translations: No translations yet
  • Original spelling: English
  • Album: Greatest Stories Live
  • Views: 131
  • Year: 1976
  • Duration: 02:25
English
I am born today
The Sun burns a promise
In my eye

Mama strikes me
And I draw a breath and cry
Above me a cloud
Slowly tumbles through the sky
I am glad, to be alive

It is my seventh day
I taste the hunger
And I cry

My Brother and sister
Cling to Mama's side
She squeezes her breast
But it has nothing to provide
Someone weeps, I fall asleep

It is twenty days today
Mama does not hold me
Anymore

I open my mouth
But I am to weak to cry
Above me a bird slowly crawls across the sky
Why is there nothing
Now to do but die?
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Written by: HARRY F. CHAPIN

Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Greatest Stories Live
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Greatest Stories Live

Harry Chapin

  • Released: 1976
  • Genres: Pop,Rock and Folk, World, & Country
  • Views: 2.902
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