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| "A Better Place to Be" | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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"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.