There Was Only One Choice Lyrics

The song There Was Only One Choice is performed by Harry Chapin in the album named The Gold Medal Collection in the year 1990 .



There's a kid out on my corner -- hear him strumming like a fool
Shivering in his dungarees -- but still he's going to school
His cheeks are made of peach fuzz -- his hopes may be the same
But he's signed up as a soldier out to play the music game

There are fake patches on his jacket -- he's used bleach to fade his jeans
With a brand new stay pressed shirt -- and some creased and wrinkled dreams
His face a blemish garden -- but his eyes are virgin clear
His voice is Chicken Little's -- But he's hearing Paul Revere

When he catches himself giggling -- he forces up a sneer
Though he'd rather have a milk shake -- he keeps forcing down the beer
Just another folkie -- late in coming down the pike
Riding his guitar -- he left Kid brother with his bike

And he's got Guthrie running in his bones
He's the hobo kid who's left his home
And his Beatles records and the Rolling Stones
This boy is staying acoustic.
There's Seeger singing in his heart
He hopes his songs will somehow start
To heal the cracks that split apart
America gone plastic

And now there's Dylan dripping from his mouth
He's hitching himself way down south
To learn a little black and blues
From old street men who paid their dues
'Cause they knew they had nothing to lose
They knew it
So they just got to it

With cracked old Gibsons and red clay shoes
Playing 1-4-5 chords like good news
And cursed with skin that calls for blood
They put their face and feet in mud
But oh they learned the music from way down there
The real ones learn it somewhere

Strum your guitar -- sing it kid
Just write about your feelings -- not the things you never




Harry Chapin - The Gold Medal Collection

Oct 1990

  1. Taxi
  2. Sunday Morning Sunshine
  3. Old College Avenue
  4. Dirty Old Man
  5. Tangled Up Puppet
  6. Dancing Boy
  7. Thanksgiving Hunger Drives
  8. Flowers Are Red
  9. Winter Song
  10. Story Of A Life
  11. Commitment & Pete Seeger
  12. There Was Only One Choice
  13. Mail Order Annie
  14. Performing
  15. W*O*L*D*
  16. Corey's Coming
  17. A Child Is Born
  18. Sniper
  19. Calluses
  20. The Rock
  21. Danceband On The Titanic
  22. I Wonder What Would Happen To This World
  23. Sequel
  24. My Grandfather
  25. Remember When The Music (Reprise)


There Was Only One Choice