DO YOU REMEMBER? Billboard #1 HOT 100 (This Week in 1974) Harry Chapin: Cats in the Cradle Cats in the Cradle is a 1974 song by Harry Chapin from the album Verities & Balderdash. The single topped the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974. As Chapins only #1 hit song, it became the best known of his work. The song was based upon a poem written by Harrys wife Sandy; the poem itself was inspired by the awkward relationship between her first husband, James Cashmore, and his father, a New York City politician. She was also inspired by a country music song she had heard on the radio. Harry has also said that the song was about his father-son relationship with his son, Josh, saying that Frankly, this song scares me to death. The song is told in first-person by a father who is too busy to spend time with his son. Though the son asks him to join in childhood activities, the father always responds with little more than vague promises of spending time together in the future. While wishing to spend time with his father, the son starts to model himself on his fathers behavior, hence the verse wishing to be just like him. The final two verses are a reverse of the roles, where the father asks his grown-up son to visit, but the son responds that he is now too busy to find the time for his father. The father then reflects that they are both alike, saying my boy was just like me. The songs chorus uses imagery related to childhood Cats in the Cradle, Silver Spoon, Little Boy Blue, Man in the Moon. Harry Chapin
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