Word Album For Children, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly 2004 Grammy Award: Best Spoken Word Album For Children, The Train They Call the City of New Orleans 2008 American Eagle Award (National Music Council of the United States) Magic Penny Award (The Children's Music Network) MENC Fame Award (The National Association for Music Education) 2020 Spirit of The Hudson Award (Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Org.) Discography Albums Life Is Like That (1976, Sundance Music) In The City of Mercy (1982, Sundance Music) Let Me Back into Your Life (1986, Flying Fish Records) Family Tree (1988, A&M) Moonboat (1989, Sony) Mother Earth (1990, A&M) Billy the Squid (1992, Sony) Zag Zig (1994, Sony) Around the World and Back Again (1996, Sony Wonder) This Pretty Planet (1996, Sony) Join The Jubilee (1996, Gadfly) Doing Our Job with John McCutcheon (1997, Rounder Select) In My Hometown (1998, Sony) Common Ground (2001, Gadfly) Great Big Fun for the Very Little One (2001, Music Little People) Making Good Noise (2003, Gadfly) Bring Back the Joy!, compilation (2004, Organic Arts Ltd) Some Assembly Required (2005, Razor & Tie) The Turning Of The Tide (2006, CDBY) So Nice To Come Home (2008, Sundance Music) Let The Bad Times Roll (2009, CDBY) Broadsides with John Forster (2010, CDBY) Give Peas a Chance (2011, Sundance Music) The Incredible Flexible You (2013, Sundance Music) 70 (2015, Sundance Music) Threads (2017, Sundance Music) At the Turning Point (2019, Sundance Music) Singles Family Tree (1988) "The Nick of Time" "Shovelling" "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" "Someone's Gonna Use It" "Family Tree" "This Pretty Planet" "Uh-Oh, Accident" "Together Tomorrow" Moonboat (1989) "Library Song" "Sing a Whale Song" "State Laughs" "Happy Birthday" "Don't Play With Bruno" "Alphabet Soup" Mother Earth (1990) "A Song of One" "Two Kinds of Seagulls" "The Wheel of the Water" "Good Garbage" "Mother Earth's Routine" "Cousins" Billy the Squid (1992) "Great Big Words" "All of My Friends" "You'll Be Sorry" "Camelling" "Happy Earth Day" "Billy the Squid" Zag Zig (1994) "The Backwards Birthday Party" "Mikey Won't" "R-E-C-Y-C-L-E" "Hi, Hi, I Love Ya" "Loose Tooth" "Clean Machine" "Johnny Glockenspiel" Around the World and Back Again (1996) "What Is a Didgeridoo?" "Song of the Earth" Filmography Film Television References External links Tom Chapin's Official Website Not On The Test Website Tom Chapin's recording of 'Left My Gal in the Mountains' for Pioneers for a Cure 1945 births Living