Plan B Forum

This one's only 18 parts...

And not really a Laff...

Maybe even a Cry:

• • (Yes, I am the father of two adult daughters. DAMN. There must be some dust in my eyes.)

And then, a few years later, Harry Chapin and his wife Sandy wrote, and Harry recorded, this one...as a deliberate counterpoint to "Cat's in the Cradle." (The first time he performed it in public was during a live interview on the Roy Leonard show on WGN radio/720 AM Chicago. He said he'd just finished it the night before, and I just happened to be listening that morning.)

"Tangled Up Puppet," or "Song to Jamie":

Turn around and you're two, turn around and you're... twenty-seven!?

Damn kids -- they grow up too fast.

Ain't it the truth.