<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420040" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>He Sang those Songs Without Words</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they brought him to the Hospital<br>He was listed as John Doe.<br>He would have liked the irony-<br>as Harry Chapin fans well know..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His hair was like a lion’s mane<br>His face both kind and strong<br>Though doctor’s tried and nurses cried<br>Harry had sung his last song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like Wednesdays’ child with far to go, <br>He’d been on the road that day.<br>He was scheduled for a concert<br>For which he’d take no pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sang songs for the suppers<br>of the poor and the deprived.<br>He may not have been “Religious”<br>-but he lived life sanctified-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His car was observed slowing down<br>And weaving between lanes<br>He might even have been dying then<br>of Coronary pains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The trucker behind him could not stop<br>He rode the brakes in vain.<br>The truck smashed into Harry’s car<br>which promptly burst in flames.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Trucker and a Motorist<br>dragged Harry from the flames.<br>I’d dearly love to thank them both<br>But I don’t know their names.<br>They Med-evacuated him <br>A helicopter came.<br>They brought Him to Nassau County Med-<br>listing “John Doe” as his name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On that torrid summer day, <br>Without a breath of air, <br>There would not be an encore<br>That much, at least, was clear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Left incomplete were several songs <br>whose words he never got to write.<br>Music that he never shared, <br>All lost within the dying of the light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Harry’s eyes were glazing over, <br>It was certain he had passed.<br>I hope he had a peaceful end<br>when his Corey came for him at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(A tribute to Harry Foster Chapin: , Singer, Songwriter and Philanthropist. 12/07/42-07/16/81)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420040" data-title="He Sang those Songs Without Words de John F. McCullagh" data-description="When they brought him to the Hospital He was listed as John Doe. He would have liked the irony- as Harry Chapin fans well know.. His hair was like a lion’s mane His face both kind and strong Though doctor’s tried and nurses cried Harry had su..."></div> </div> </div>

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