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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
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Comments/Interpretations
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.
THIS SONG HAS BEEN HAUNTING ME FOR YEARS ITS SO GOOD AND SHOULD BE PLAYED MUCH MORE
Not at all! KHJ was HUGE in L.A. in it's day. Many of the biggest DJs got their start there.
Belive theres a WOLD somewhere in Virginia.
There was a W*O*L*D in Virginia.
This song haunted me since I first heard it (60s?) Just found it in i tunes Better than i remember and yes, there are tears - Outstanding
This is a really moving song which seems to be having a renaissance in England & is especially being played a lot on BBC radio 2.
OMG, I was just reading these lyrics and Radio Caroline played it (as they often do). A great song (like cats in the cradle).
I adore this song...Harry Chapin, a life cut short, what an amazing man.
People say, 'Oh, Harry Chapin, I like him, he did Cats in the Cradle and Taxi", and I have to remind them, Harry was a brilliant artist, but those aren't even his best stories/songs. This is among them
I know that there was definitely a station with the call sign WOLD when this song was first released. It was a small, mom and pop station in the Eastern United States if I recall correctly (thank you, Casey Kasem). The station "WOLD" was clearly deliberate. "OLD" was the connotation for an aging DJ who had seen better (and more popular) days. I read somewhere that Harry Chapin was killed in an auto accident on his way to perform somewhere. The details of the accident were never really known, although Chapin was reputedly a notoriously poor driver.
This transcript was from his live album "Greatest Stories Live". That must have been recorded where KHJ sponsored the show. In the original version the chorus never changes. When I was a DJ in my early 20's this song use to scare me as a sad look into my future, but I loved the song and I still do. I knew some of those people who never hit the big time and were still big fish in small ponds well past the time they were ever going to get that big gig they always thought was coming. I got out of the business in my mid 20's, but this song still makes me shiver when I hear it.
You're music has inspired me . Thank -you Harry Chapin!!
Comment on Harry using local radio station call letters at a concert during the last verse is also what I remember, e.g. WIXY in Cleveland.
Heard Taxi on WILK FM 103.1 Wilkes-Barre, PA last night and suddenly I was 16 again. It's a shame the kids today don't know much about Harry Chapin because his songs are so long but great. HarryChapinFoundation.org has an actual online radio station and hotline where you can call and share memories. It's worth visiting the site.
great timeless classic. sounds as good today as it did the first time I heard it back in '74.
I was the morning DJ , "sign-on" man on a small "MOR" (middle of the road) AM station in the Midwest in the early 1970's. I left when they wanted to put me in the "rock jock" spot, and i realized that it wasn't fit work for a grownup. This song has always haunted me with it's perceptiveness and honesty.
Such a great song.I saw him in Providence, RI and at the end he said" W P R O o o o o Playing all the hits for you--you know where you can go."It got a big laugh.His band was snowed in some place that night and he had to do the show by himself and was just fabulous.
Haunting lyrics for anyone who ever sat behind a mike. I had a wonderfully talented friend who got lost in being a top jock in a medium market. He eventually drifted from station to station and died alone and way too young as a result of his drinking. RIP pal.
Zappa, if you've followed him thru the years, let you know sometimes what's on his mind. He liket this song & wuz tha one what turnd me onto it. That fiendish FZ...he knew where it was at.
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