Source Acknowledgements
For a lot of the details given in the biography of Tim Hardin, I made good use of the sleeve notes written by Colin Escott on two recent compilation CDs. I hope he doesn't mind. I am genuinely grateful for his immense knowledge and for his research efforts.
Many people have written to me and have consequently added to the information on this website. I am grateful to you all. Sharing information is what the Internet is all about, so if you want to add to the various thoughts & facts given in these pages, simply drop me an e-mail. I do try to reply and I occasionally collect relevant e-mails and put them onto the website.
Other sources are:
Fans of rock music are strongly recommended to obtain copies of these resources for any form of research - or even just for general interest.
The fullest biography and critique of Tim Hardin is in American Troubadours by Mark Brend (available from Amazon). I would thoroughly recommend this book for its examination of the work of nine singer-songwriters of the 60s. Another fine work is Tattoed on Their Tongues by Colin Escott.
In addition, Tim Hardin is mentioned in the December 1999 and May 2001 editions of Record Collector.
If you wish to explore the views of like-minded fans of Tim Hardin, try contacting: Bird-on-a-wire@Onelist.com and Jessica will get in touch with you.
In addition, there is now an excellent discussion board under the aegis of HighRoad's site at http://www.zipcon.com/~highroad/cgi-bin/hardin.pl.
Lyrics & Tabs
A couple of songs that people have requested are shown below. However, for a large collection of Tim Hardin lyrics, you should try Adrie Meijer's website at home.hetnet.nl/~adriemeijer/timhardin/tabs.html
| Hang on to a Dream Gm F Eb DCm F F Gm F Eb DCm D D Eb F Gm GmEb F G G (Each chord is played over 1 bar in waltz time (3/4). First bar is silence, singing starts as F is played) What can I say, she's walking away From what we've seen What can I do, still loving you - it's all a dream How can we hang on to a dream? How can it really be the way it seems? What can I do, she's saying we're through With how it was. What will I try, I still don't see why She says what she does. How can we hang on to a dream? How can it really be the way it seems? Repeat first verse, but add at the end: Eb F G How can you hang on to a dream? |
It'll Never
Happen Again I remember our first affair All the pain, always rain around my eyes It'll never happen again; it'll never happen again Every time I leave you alone I remember the time I couldn't come home It'll never happen again; it'll never happen again Bridge: Why can't you be where I want you to be? Why can't you see you've got to change to love me? I remember our first affair All the pain, always rain around my eyes It'll never happen again; it'll never happen again . Chords are Fmaj7 Cmaj7 throughout (two bars each) except Em7 on "happen" and second line of bridge goes: Cmaj7 G F G over Why can't you see you've got to change to love me? |
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