Harry Chapin - A Better Place To Be

About "A Better Place To Be"

"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."According to Chapin, it was his favorite song that he wrote.

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