Does he burst into flames at the end?

A nice cover of the Jim Croce classic.

/actually this is one of my favorite songs

keep your car properly maintained?

dramboxf: GoodyearPimp: A nice cover of the Jim Croce classic.

/actually this is one of my favorite songs

Nice try.

Croce's daddy's-not-home-enough song was Time In A Bottle, dedicated to his then-newborn son Adrian. Baby's all grown up and has his own musical career as AJ Croce.

That said, I actually like both songs. I remember how hip it was to hate CITC during the grunge era, and not just for the obvious reasons.

Any of these versions could be used annually on Farker's Day.

How can he have anything to say when he's been dead almost 30 years?

/Zombie Chapin driving his taxi around

psychicdeath99: /Zombie Chapin driving his taxi around

She took off to find the footlights, he took off to find the sky.

/Great song, the live version is incredible
//Whatever we had once is gone

Damn I hate this song...it makes my allergies act up.

psychicdeath99: How can he have anything to say when he's been dead almost 30 years?

/Zombie Chapin driving his taxi around

It is about the anniversary, isn't it? (29 years to be exact).

I was 15 when it came out. It pretty much described my home life. Scary.

Hated it when it hit the charts. decades later, realized it's an awesome tune. I also like Ugly Kid Joe's version. There, I said it.

AliasUndercover: Damn I hate this song...it makes my allergies act up.

Agreed. I didn't even know you could be allergic to songs before this one

Don't be hatin' on Harry Chapin. 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' put Canada on the musical map!

This record is as well written as one could be but I shutter when I hear the first chords of the guitar play today, just like I did when I first heard it years ago.I have this eerie sixth sense about some people and some entertainers who I feel are soon to die violently.I got this creepy feeling about Harry Chapin when I first heard this song and I was so shaken up inside that I couldn't hear the words for a couple of minutes.It was like visions of coffins,cemeteries, and obituaries began to flood my mind. After hearing the song a dozen or more times I became used to it but a couple of years later when the TV news show said that Harry was killed in a horrific traffic accident I had no feeling of shock inside...sort of like I was expecting it to happen.
Over the years I have had this unnerving vision of death when I first heard a song or saw an actor in a movie. I have been deadly accurate with this eerie almost warning-like vision several times and every time it happens, it scares the hell out of me and I can't sleep that night.
I know this sounds crazy but seeing that song mentioned brought back that creepy premonition of certain death coming soon.
It happened the first time I ever heard Bad,Bad Leroy Brown to Jim Croce too.The last time I experienced this phenomenon was with Nirvana first playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" I knew KC's days were numbered.I hope that I never experience this again.

professordumbledorf,

Please, oh please, watch Twilight while listening to Lady Gaga.

The most touching part of the song is where he is turning it from the father apologizing to the son to the son apologizing to the father for not having time but the addressing gets mixed and both are apologizing to each other because deep down they both know they have nothing in common.

When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

The father is asking the son to spend some time with him, but the answer isn't "sure, later, dad" it's "sure, later, son" as if the father is talking to himself or answering in place of his son.

That is the part that gets me the most. It's like he knows how much he's screwed his son up, and has just given up hope altogether.

professordumbledorf: This record is as well written as one could be but I shutter when I hear the first chords of the guitar play today, just like I did when I first heard it years ago.I have this eerie sixth sense about some people and some entertainers who I feel are soon to die violently.I got this creepy feeling about Harry Chapin when I first heard this song and I was so shaken up inside that I couldn't hear the words for a couple of minutes.It was like visions of coffins,cemeteries, and obituaries began to flood my mind. After hearing the song a dozen or more times I became used to it but a couple of years later when the TV news show said that Harry was killed in a horrific traffic accident I had no feeling of shock inside...sort of like I was expecting it to happen.
Over the years I have had this unnerving vision of death when I first heard a song or saw an actor in a movie. I have been deadly accurate with this eerie almost warning-like vision several times and every time it happens, it scares the hell out of me and I can't sleep that night.
I know this sounds crazy but seeing that song mentioned brought back that creepy premonition of certain death coming soon.
It happened the first time I ever heard Bad,Bad Leroy Brown to Jim Croce too.The last time I experienced this phenomenon was with Nirvana first playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" I knew KC's days were numbered.I hope that I never experience this again.

I believe you are looking for this:

jeremynobody: Don't be hatin' on Harry Chapin. 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' put Canada on the musical map!

That was Gordon Lightfoot, you nob.

Drakmordis: jeremynobody: Don't be hatin' on Harry Chapin. 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' put Canada on the musical map!

That was Gordon Lightfoot, you nob.

Don't hate on that Gordo. I love "Sundown" and "Carefree Highway".

ParadisePornoTheater: Don't hate on that Gordo. I love "Sundown" and "Carefree Highway".

Really?, You're gonna list some lightfoot songs as if you are some kinda hero and skip this one?
If You Could Read My Mind
...but heroes often fail.

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