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• Rjb from Buffalo, New YorkI grew up to this music. It was a song sung to me as i was young. It's a song for me when I was sad. It was a song for marriage. I think of this song to be apart of everyone who can relate. Everything is gonna be alright.
• Carol Mccullough Santos from Rochester NyDan and Sheila were VISTA volunteers with me in 1967 in Danville, IL where they met and fell in love. Sheila left for California shortly after Dan departed and I know they married and had son Colin. She was perfect for him and I'm pleased they share a life together.
• Chad from Olcott, NySinc is incorrect on the Greek alphabet. Without Alpha and Omega the Greek alphabet would be Beta-Psi, not Beta-Chi. Therefore his/her theory is incorrect.
• Roxy7777777 from DenverI think when he says the line "he was a sorry guy", was just a brotherly jab, a joke. Sorry was slang back then. Sort of a loser.
• Dominic from PrincetonNo! No! No, guys... It's:
  "Seems like a month ago
  I ate burgers and fries,
  Never got high
  Oh, I was a sorry guy."
  So, he has obviously stopped eating meat, started smoking weed, and is now cool thanks to this hippie chick. Can I still say "chick" or is that not P.C.?
• Arthur from New JerseyIncredibly, Anne Murray and Kenny Loggins never recorded or performed this song together.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 29, 1979, Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald performed "Danny's Song" on the Philadelphia-based syndicated television program, 'The Mike Douglas Show'...
  Eight years earlier in 1971 "Danny's Song" song was track two of side one on the 'Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin' In' album, the album peaked at #70 on Billboard's Pop albums chart...
  In 1972 Anne Murray covered the song, on December 31st, 1972 her version entered Billboard's Top 100 chart at position #83, fourteen weeks later it would peak at #7 {for 1 week} and it spent eighteen weekson the Top 100...
  It reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on March 11th, 1972 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
  And in March of 1973 it also reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on the Canadian RPM Singles chart, plus it peaked at #1 on the RPM Contemporary & Country charts.
• Renee from Chatsworth, CaI don't understand why some people believe the lyrics are "quiet and shy." If you listen to the lyrics, it sounds nothing like that. It's Beta Chi. Also, Kenny wrote the song for his brother Dan, who was getting married to a woman named Sheila (which is why it isn't grammatically incorrect when he sings "He will be like She and me," as he was referring to Sheila). He wrote "House at Pooh Corner" when he was still in high school.
• Shawn from Rochester, NyIt's not BetaChi its quiet and shy.....probably reflecting on being somewhere new for the first time and not knowing a lot of people where he was at...e.g. college.
  
• Stan Friar from South Pasadena, CaDan Loggins was my fraternity brother in Beta Chi at Cal State University in Los Angeles in the mid 60's. Hope this sheds some light on this subject.
• Zeech from West Palm Beach, FlI have always believed the lyric to be "I was Beta Chi" i.e. I was in a fraternity and look at me now. And it doesn't matter if the real Beta Chi didn't start til 1985, I believe in this song it was a fictional fraternity.
• Curtis from Westerville, OhI think when he says "Beta Chi", and agreeing on Sinc's feeling that the Alpha and Omega were omitted, If you are neither Alpha or Omega as a person, you are incomplete. Some folks feel they are incomplete without that person they are mean to spend their lives with. He could be saying he was just incomplete without her.
• Sinc from Vancouver, BcOur alphabet consists of the letters A-Z. Without the A and Z the alphabet would be B-Y. The Greek alphabet without Alpha and Omega would be Beta-Chi. The phrase is evocative and open to our interpretation, but I have no doubt that the person to whom the song was written understands it well.
• Guy from Woodinville, WaWhatever your lyric interpretation, this is one of those Special Songs. You know, right up there with Paul Stookey's Wedding Song. A perfect marriage of word, music, and emotion that commemorates one of life's passages.
• Melissa from Windsor, CanadaI'm insanely confused about this lyric myself. The only thing I can come up with is that he had a secure future ahead of him, a paid-for education, the approval of his parents, and was most likely going to make a lot of money with his education. Maybe he spent his time with well off people and his social circle was very shallow and materialistic. Maybe because their education was paid-for and perhaps their majors chosen for them, they really didn't care about the future, only parties, events happenning at school, and relationship drama. Perhaps he was never in love before and it made his priorities change. Then when he knew he was going to be a father he abandoned his comfortable life and the approval of others to work for a living and provide for his family. Just a guess ... I have no idea if this is what it means at all.
• Genie from Seattle, WaSome people hear the "beta chi" line as "Seems as though a month ago I was a bitter guy ... ."
  It sounds like "beta chi" to me, but to me that makes no sense. If it did mean "seems like a month ago I was a frat boy," then the "Never got high" line would seem to be a non-sequitur. ; D
  And if it was the Christian fraternity, that might explain the "never got high," but why would that make Danny "a sorry guy?"
  
  I suspect either "beta chi" is some kind of slang that I'm not in on or it's a "mondegreen" (like "there is a bathroom on the right").
  
  Genie, Seattle
• Bob from Farmington Hills, MiTodd, there's no possible way the Beta Chi lyric is correct; that fraternity wasn't started until 1985!
• Sara from Silver Spring, MdSome sources claim Anne Murray wrote it first? Is there a clarification
• Sara from Silver Spring, MdRecently Anne Murray did this as a duet with Martina McBride on her "Friends and Lovers" album.
• Todd from Atlanta, GaThose are basically the right lyrics - "Seems as though a month ago I was Beta Chi, Never got high, Oh, I was a sorry guy." I think he is referring to how quickly time passes - it seems like only yesterday I was in a college fraternity and now I'm married and going to be a father. The frat could be Beta Upsilon Chi aka Brothers Under Christ, the largest Christian social frat which give further meaning to the "Never got high" lyrics
• Sara from Silver Spring, MdWell of course many female artists have sung songs by the opposite gender... Of course Kenny's is the best!
• Philip from Akron, OhI checked on the lyrics, because I have never understood what he's saying on the second verse...
  
  "Seems as though a month ago I beta chi,
  never got high,
  Oh, I was a sorry guy. "
  
  I don't think that's correct.

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