Sniper and Other Love Songs

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Sniper & Other Love Songs
Studio album by Harry Chapin
Released	October 1972
Recorded	?
Genre	Singer-songwriter
Length	45:52
Label	Elektra Records
Producer(s)	Fred Kewley
Professional reviews
All Music Guide:
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.

[edit] Track listing

(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 Lady" – 3:29
6. "Better Place to Be" – 8:36
7. "Circle" – 3:24
8. "Woman Child" – 5:24
9. "Winter Song" – 2:31

[edit] Personnel

• Harry Chapin - guitar, vocals
• John Wallace - bass, vocals

[edit] See also

• 1972 in music