Friday, August 22, 2025
Time: 5:51 AM
Song: Dreams Go By
Artist: Harry Chapin
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Greatest Stories Live by Harry Chapin on vinyl.''
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/7iKNTXZPpj7HHaL7xg7Tzs?si=eeb99506d11547ec
I bought this album a few weeks ago at an estate sale in the Lost Nation subdivision outside of Dixon. It was one of five I bought with the idea of either keeping or putting on the sale. For two bucks, it’s worth taking a chance.
“I don’t think I know any Harry Chapin songs other than ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’,” I tell Jodi as the album plays. We are eating a supper of tomato pie, corn on the cob, and green beans. She’s turning me into a vegetable.
“I think you’ll know the ‘Taxi’ song,” she answers. She then tells the story of the song about a man who becomes a taxi driver and then has a customer who it turns out he knew in his younger days.
None of that sounds familiar, but it’s likely I’ll know the tune once it plays. It surprises me that I have looked into Chapin more. He’s the sort of singer songwriter that I gravitate toward.
Jodi looks at the album cover.
“I guess I never knew what Harry Chapin looked like,” she comments.
“Me neither. I just know he died young, but I don’t remember how.”
“Hmm, I don’t know if I knew that.”
The album continues playing as we finish eating and do the dishes. We only get through the first record of the set, so I’ll have to wait until the next time to hear “Taxi” and decide if I know it.
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