Day Is Done (Peter, Paul and Mary song)

For other uses, see Day Is Done.
"Day Is Done"
Single by Peter, Paul and Mary
from the album Peter, Paul and Mommy
B-side "Make Believe Town"
Released April 1969[1]
Format Vinyl single
Genre
Length 3:16
Label Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Writer(s) Peter Yarrow
Peter, Paul and Mary singles chronology
"Love City (Postcard from Duluth)"
(1968)		 "Day Is Done"
(1969)		 "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
(1969)

"Day Is Done" is a song written by Peter Yarrow. It was recorded by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary and released as a single in 1969. The song reached No. 21 on Billboard Hot 100, and was ranked No. 48 on the Billboard year-end Top Easy Listening Singles chart of 1969.[2]

Background

"Day Is Done" was written by Peter Yarrow in 1968, and it was the last single that Peter, Paul and Mary recorded together as a group (their last single actually released "Leaving on a Jet Plane" was recorded earlier for Album 1700 from 1967).[3] The song was written as an anti-war song during the Vietnam War era,[4] and Yarrow performed it as the opening song at a concert during the anti-war march he helped organized in Washington in November 1969.[5][6] It became one of the well-known protest songs in the era.[7] According to Yarrow, the message of the song is that "children will lead us to a better world".[8]

Yarrow later released a children book based on the lyrics of the song as part of his Songbook Series.[9] It contains a three-song CD with a version of the song he recorded with his daughter Bethany.[10]

Charts

Chart (1969) Peak
position
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[11] 5
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[12] 17
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[13] 7
US Billboard Hot 100[14] 21

References

  1. ↑ "Peter, Paul And Mary – Day Is Done". 45cat.
  2. ↑ "Top Records of 1969". Billboard. December 27, 1969.
  3. ↑ Amy Willis (September 17, 2009). "Peter, Paul and Mary: Career timeline". The Daily Telegraph.
  4. ↑ "Peter Yarrow - Day Is Done". Politics and Prose. October 2, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Puff: Still Not a Drug Song". Chronogram.
  6. ↑ "How classical music reached half a million young people". On An Overgrown Path.
  7. ↑ "Protest Songs". Traditional Music Library.
  8. ↑ Lisa Torem (February 13, 2010). "Interview with Peter Yarrow". Penny Black Music.
  9. ↑ "Peter Yarrow - Day Is Done". Politics and Prose.
  10. ↑ Sonya Ellingboe (October 2, 2009). "Take my hand when day is done". Centennial Citizen.
  11. ↑ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 5922." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  12. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 6026." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  13. ↑ "Peter, Paul and Mary – Chart history" Billboard Adult Contemporary for Peter, Paul and Mary.
  14. ↑ "Peter, Paul and Mary – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Peter, Paul and Mary.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics


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