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[ti:The Shortest Story (Live 1975 Version)]
[ar:Harry Chapin]
[al:Greatest Stories Live]
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[00:00.000]The Shortest Story (Live|1975) - Harry Chapin
[00:08.861]I am born today the sun burns
[00:14.440]It's promise in my eyes
[00:19.919]Mama strikes me and I draw a breath and cry
[00:27.349]Above me a cloud softly
[00:31.909]Tumbles through the sky
[00:34.539]I am glad to be alive
[00:47.149]It is my seventh day
[00:51.899]I taste the hunger and I cry
[00:58.559]My brother and sister cling to Mama's side
[01:06.529]She squeezes her breast
[01:09.749]But it has nothing to provide
[01:14.199]Someone weeps I fall asleep
[01:26.749]It is twenty days today
[01:31.518]Mama does not hold me anymore
[01:38.478]I open my mouth but I am too weak to cry
[01:46.338]Above me a bird slowly crawls across the sky
[01:53.897]Why is there nothing now to do but die