Day Is Done (Peter, Paul and Mary song)

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"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 1979.[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

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  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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