{"id":4575,"date":"2013-08-01T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2013-08-01T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:34:53","slug":"cats-in-the-cradle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2013\/08\/01\/cats-in-the-cradle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats In The Cradle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Original by Harry Chapin<br \/>\nCoversong by Daniel<\/p>\n<pre>Verse:\r\nE\t\t  G\r\nMy child arrived just the other day,\r\n   A\t\t       E\r\nHe came to the world in the usual way\r\nE\t\t    \t  G\r\nBut there were planes to catch and bills to pay,\r\nA\t\t     E\r\nHe learned to walk while I was away\r\n\t   D\t   \t  A\/C#\t       Bm\t A\r\nAnd he was talking 'for I knew it, and as he grew\r\n\tG\t   Bm        E\t           G\t   Bm      E\r\nHe said \"I'm gonna be like you, dad, you know I'm gonna be like you\"\r\n\r\nChorus:\r\n\tE\t\t D\r\nAnd the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,\r\nG\t\tA\r\nLittle boy blue and the man in the moon\r\nE\t\t\tD\r\n\"When you commin' home dad?\" \"I don't know when,\r\n     G\t          Bm\tE                   G     \t          Bm\t     E\r\nBut we'll get together then, You know we'll have a good time then\"\r\n\r\nVerse 2\r\nE\t\t       G\r\nMy son turned ten just the other day\r\n   A\t\t\t    E\r\nHe said \"Thanks for the ball dad, come on let's play\r\nE\t\t  G\r\nCan you teach me to throw\" \r\nA\t\t\t   E\r\nI said \"Not today I got a lot to do\" He said \"Thats OK\"\r\n        D\t          A\/C#              Bm    A\r\nHe walked away but his smile never dimmed,\r\n     G\t             Bm       E\t      G\t             Bm     E\r\nIt said I'm gonna be like him, yeah, You know I'm gonna be like him\r\n\r\nVerse 3\r\nE\t\t\tG\r\nWell he came from college just the other day\r\n    A\t\t          E\r\nSo much like a man I just had to say\r\nE\t\t\tG\r\n\"Son I'm proud of you can you sit for a while?\"\r\nA\t\t\tE\r\nHe shook his head and he said with a smile,\r\n        D\t                  A\/C#              Bm    A\r\n\"What I'd really like dad is to borrow the car keys,\r\n     G\t                    Bm       E\r\nSee you later can I have them please?\"\r\n\r\nVerse 4\r\nE\t\t\tG\r\nI've long since retired, my son's moved away\r\nA\t\t        E\r\nI called him up just the other day\r\nE\t\t\tG\r\nI said \"I'd like to see you if you don't mind\"\r\nA\t\t\t E\r\nHe said \"I'd love to dad if I could find the time,\r\n        D\t                        A\/C#                         Bm    A\r\nYou see the my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu\r\n     G\t                  Bm       E\t      G\t             Bm     E\r\nBut it's sure nice talkin' to you dad... It's sure nice talkin' to you\"\r\n        D\t                    A\/C#            Bm    A\r\nAnd as I hung up the phone it occurred to me,\r\n     G\t         Bm       E      G\t             Bm     E\r\nHe'd grown up just like me. My boy was just like me\r\n\r\nLast Chorus\r\nAnd the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon\r\nLittle boy blue and the man in the moon\r\n\"When you commin' home son?\" \"I don't know when,\r\nBut we'll get together then, Dad,\r\nWe're gonna have a good time then\"<\/pre>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/daniel-brouse\/Like-Son\/000305_2025-Cats-In-The-Cradle.mp3\">Cats In The Cradle.mp3<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/daniel-brouse\/Like-Son\/\">Like Father, Like Son<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original by Harry Chapin Coversong by Daniel Verse: E G My child arrived just the other day, A E He came to the world in the usual way E G But there were planes to catch and bills to pay, A E He learned to walk while I was away D A\/C# Bm A And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1478,14],"tags":[1899,1419,2140,198,304,312,318,2139,2128,487,1816,546,556,578,759,778,782],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-coversongs","category-lyrics","tag-americana","tag-country-music","tag-cover","tag-daniel-brouse","tag-folk-rock","tag-free","tag-free-mp3-downloads","tag-harry-chapin","tag-like-son","tag-live","tag-made-in-the-usa","tag-mp4","tag-music","tag-new","tag-singer","tag-song","tag-songwriter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}