HARRY CHAPIN TOP TEN POLL

In 1999 the Harry Chapin Yahoo Group set up a poll to find the most popular Harry Chapin songs. It produced some interesting results and four years later in October 2003 I set up a similar poll to see how choices might have changed. It needs to be pointed out that most of the voters said that their choices changed regularly even daily. The poll results are shown below including the 1999 position. If you have any comments on the poll or would like a copy in Word or Excel, please e-mail me on: colin@cgerrard.freeserve.co.uk

2003		POINTS	1999
1	Better place to be	159	3
2	Corey's coming	112	4
3	Remember when the music	109	13
4	Taxi	103	1
5	Mr Tanner	96	2
6	Sequel	95	8
7	There was only one choice	92	7
8	Cats in the cradle	68	5
9	Sniper	63	14
10	Mayor of Candor lied	61	17
11	Tangled up puppet	59	15
12	Mail order Annie	52	18
13	Story of a life	47	7
14	Shooting star	46	23
15	Circle	42	9
16	W*O*L*D	36	11
17	The Rock	36	25
18	What made America famous	34	10
19	Greyhound	34	21
20	They call her easy	30	41
21	Flowers are red	28	28
22	If my Mary were here	28	49
23	Old college avenue	26	68
24	Road to kingdom come	24	******
25=	Any old kind of day	21	45
25=	Last stand	21	32
25=	Vacancy	21	49
28	Dance Band on the Titanic	20	27
29=	She is always 17	19	*****
29=	You are the only song	19	57
29=	I wanna learn a love song	19	24
32=	Sunday morning sunshine	18	23
32=	Dogtown	18	34
34	I wonder what Happened to him	17	45
35=	30,000 lbs of bananas	16	35
35=	We grew up a little bit	16	*****
37	Stranger with thr melodies	15	45
38	Dirt gets under the fingernails	14	38
39=	Shortest story	13	*****
39=	Six string orchestra	13	32
41=	The day they closed the factory down	12	******
41=	Let time go lightly	12	******
43=	Pigeon run	11	******
43=	Mercenaries	11	20
45=	Bluesman	10	40
45=	Cry from my country	10	40
45=	We were three	10	59
45=	Why do people stay the same	10	*******
49=	Bummer	9	*******
49=	Changes	9	29
49=	Could you put your light on please	9	63
49=	Dreams go by	9	45
49=	Laugh man	9	31
49=	Why do little girls	9	49
49=	Up on the shelf	9	63
56=	Baby never cries	8	*****
56=	Country dreams	8	51
56=	Odd job man	8	42
56=	Somebody said	8	42
60=	Mismatch	7	45
60=	Old folkie	7	45
60=	Same sad singer	7	*****
63=	Caroline	6	59
63=	It's you girl	6	*****
63=	Manhood	6	51
63=	Short stories	6	*****
63=	Stupid	6	*****
63=	Someone keeps calling my name	6	69
69=	Northwest 22	5	51
69=	I don't want to be President	5	51
69=	I finally found it Sandy	5	******
69=	I Wonder What Would Happen To This World	5	******
69=	Last of the protest singers	5	******
69=	The Parade's Still Passing By	5	73
69=	When I look up	5	*****
76=	Burning herself	4	*****
76=	Too much world	4	*****
76=	You own the only light	4	*****
79=	God babe you've been good to me	3	*****
79=	Poor damned fool	3	63
79=	Pretzel man	3	*****
82=	Copper	2	******
82=	Paint a picture of yourself	2	42
82=	Salt and pepper	2	51
82=	Dancing boy	2	38
86=	If you want to feel	1	63
86=	Jenny	1	57
86=	So they sail (seasons in the sky)	1	57
****	Halfway to heaven	****	29
****	Old greasy spoon	****	33
****	Song for myself	*****	34