Sniper and Other Love Songs

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Sniper & Other Love Songs
Sniper & Other Love Songs cover
Studio album by Harry Chapin
Released October 1972
Recorded ?
Genre Singer-songwriter
Length 45:52
Label Elektra Records
Producer Fred Kewley
Professional reviews
Harry Chapin chronology
Heads and Tales
(1972)		 Sniper and Other Love Songs
(1972)		 Short Stories
(1974)

Sniper and Other Love Songs is the second studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1972. The album's title song is a vaguely fictionalised account of Charles Whitman's shootings from the University of Texas at Austin Main Building clocktower in August 1966. In 2004 it was released as a double CD package with "Heads and Tales" featuring several previously unreleased out-takes.

The song "Circle" was a major hit for The New Seekers and became known as the Chapin Anthem. "Sunday Morning Sunshine" did manage to crack the Billboard Hot 100. A live version of "Better Place To Be" charted in 1976.

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(All songs by Harry Chapin)

  1. "Sunday Morning Sunshine" – 3:51
  2. "Sniper" – 9:58
  3. "And the Baby Never Cries" – 5:09
  4. "Burning Herself" – 3:30
  5. "Barefoot Boy" – 3:29
  6. "A Better Place to Be" – 8:36
  7. "Circle" – 3:24
  8. "Woman Child" – 5:24
  9. "Winter Song" – 2:31

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