Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin off of his 1974 album Verities & Balderdash. This song is about the relationship between a father and son. As stated in the video, Harry's wife, Sandy, wrote the poem the song is based on. I first heard this song when Ugly Kid Joe covered it back in 1992.

The father makes up excuses for why he can't spend time with his son and the son accepts the excuses and says he wants to grow up to be just him. Later in the story the tables turn and the son makes up excuses for why he can't spend time with his dad.

I'm sure this hits home with all fathers out there. It's hard to do everything they ask, but I do think about this song when I have to tell them no.

"And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me, he'd grown up just like me.
My boy was just like me."



Here is the Ugly Kid Joe Version which I think is great: