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Wold Lyrics

Artist: Harry Chapin

Hello Honey, it's me
What did you think when you heard me back on the radio?
What did the kids say when they knew it was their long lost daddy-o?
Remember how we listened to the radio
And I said `That's the place for me'
And how I got the job as an FM Jock the day you married me?
We were two kids and I was was into AM rock
But I just had to run around
It's been eight years since I left you babe
Let me tell you 'bout what's gone down
CHORUS
I am the morning DJ on W*O*L*D
Playing all the hits for you wherever you may be
The bright good-morning voice who's heard but never seen
Feeling all of forty-five going on fifteen
The drinking I did on my last big gig made my voice go low
They said that they liked the younger sound when they let me go
So I drifted on down to Tulsa, Oklahoma to do me a late night talk show
Now I worked my way back home again, via Boise, Idhao
That's how this business goes
CHORUS
I've been making extra money playing high school sock hops
I'm a big time guest MC
You should hear me talking to the little children
And listen what they say to me
Got a spot on the top of my head, begging for a new toupee
And a tire on my gut from sitting on my
But they're never gonna go away
Sometimes I get this crazy dream
That I just drive off in my car
But you can travel on ten thousand miles and still say where you are
I've been thinking that I should quit disk jockeying
And start that record store
Maybe I could settle down if you'ld take me back once more
OK Honey, I see
I guess he's better than me
Sure, Old Girl, I understand
You don't have to worry, I'm such a happy man
W*O*L*D, W*O*L*D, W*O*L, W*O*L, W*O*L*D*D*D
I am the morning DJ on K*H*J
Playing all the hits for you Playing them night and day
The bright good morning voice who's heard but never seen
Feeling all of forty-five, going on fifteen
I am the morning DJ on W*O*L*D

Comments/Interpretations
by David Green on 7/26/2008 6:44am WOLD -THIS GREAT SONG IS SELDOM HEARD ON THE RADIO. ITS TOO LONG THE NETWORKS SAY.IT IS A GREAT SONG THOUGH. LIKE MOST OF HARRYS SONGS IT TELLS A SAD STORY.AND THE REAL SHAME HE'S GONE NOW, PEOPLE CAN STILL ENJOY LISTENING TO HIS MUSIC THOUGH. WHICH STATION WAS WOLD OR KHJ,?? CHECK OUT OTHER SONGS LIKE 'CATS IN THE CRADLE' MANY OF HIS SONGS WILL BRING A TEAR TO YOUR EYES. A GREAT SINGER/SONGWRITER
by Craig on 9/8/2008 3:01am KHJ was an AM/FM station in the L.A. market in the 70's. Songs with a radio reference often had their lyrics changed to plug the local station's call letters. KHJ was especially fond of this tactic -- it's odd that that was left in this transcription of the lyrics. WOLD, on the other hand, is fictional as far as I know -- Chapin was just playing on 'old'.
by Jack Rabbit on 9/13/2008 6:37pm KHJ Radio in Los Angeles, California broadcasts Spanish-language entertainment programming as La Ranchera. It was also one of America's most formidable Top 40 radio stations in the 1960s and 1970s as 93 KHJ before changing its format in 1980.
by LAURA ANNSFORDE on 10/29/2008 11:15am THIS SONG HAS BEEN HAUNTING ME FOR YEARS ITS SO GOOD AND SHOULD BE PLAYED MUCH MORE
by R.N on 2/3/2009 2:33am KHJ...I've never heard of it is/was it a small Radio station?
by Mark A. on 2/9/2009 11:57am Not at all! KHJ was HUGE in L.A. in it's day. Many of the biggest DJs got their start there.
by T.S on 4/2/2009 12:58am Belive theres a WOLD somewhere in Virginia.
by Yep on 7/2/2009 1:17am There was a WOL*D in Virginia.
by Mr Bobo on 9/10/2009 1:16am KHJ was 930 on the AM dial. It was and is the legendary "Boss Radio", started in the mid 60's thru the mid 70's. It was THE rock station in LA. It was the starting place for many DJs. KRTH (the FM version and an oldies station) reassembled the "Boss Jocks" in the 90's playing the same music they played 20 years before on "Boss Radio", with the same dialogue, talk about flash backs!

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