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"A Better Place to Be"
Single by Harry Chapin
from the album Sniper and Other Love Songs
Released
October 1972
Recorded
1972
Genre
Folk rock
Length
8:36
Label
Elektra
Songwriter(s)
Harry Chapin
Producer(s)
Fred Kewley
Harry Chapin singles chronology
"Sunday Morning Sunshine" (1972)
"A Better Place to Be" (1972)
"W.O.L.D." (1973)
"A Better Place to Be" is a song by Harry Chapin from his 1972 album, Sniper and Other Love Songs. The song is about a midnight watchman confiding in a waitress, while drinking gin, about a woman that he met a week before and had a one-night stand with.
Released as a single, the song reached No. 18 on the Billboard Bubbling Under chart. A live version, from the 1976 album Greatest Stories Live, reached No. 86 on the Hot 100 chart.
Record World called it a "distinctive Chapin narrative, this time a downbeat tale about two lonely people."[1]
According to Chapin, it was his favorite song that he wrote.
^"Single Picks" (PDF). Record World. December 9, 1972. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
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