Taxiv2

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Taxi

(Harry Chapin)

It was raining hard in Frisco I needed

one more fair to make my night A lady up ahead waved to

flag me down she got in at the light

"Where you going to my lady blue,

It's a shame you runed your gown in the rain,"

She just looked out the window, she said

"Sixteen Parkside lane"

Something about her was familier,

I could swear I'd seen that face before

But she said "I'm sure you're mistaken"

mistaken" and she didn't say anything more

It took a while but she looked in the mirror

Then she glanced at the licence for my name

A smile seemed to come to her slowly

It was a sad smile just the same

And she said "How are you Harry" I said "how are you

Sue" Through the too many miles and too little smiles

I still remember you

It was somewhere in a fairy tail

I used to take her home in my car

We learned about love in the back of a Dodge

The lessons hadn't gone too far

lessons hadn't gone to far

G Em A D D (add C#)

You see she was going to be an actress And I was gonna learn to

fly She took off to find the footlights, I

took off to find the sky

I've got something inside me, to make a princesess blind

Theres a wild man wiz-ard he's hiding in me, illuminatin' my mind

I've got something inside me, not what my life's about

Cause I've been letting my outside tide me over till my time runs out

Some harmonic stuff (no idea)

There was not much more for us

to talk about Whatever we had once was gone So I turned my cab

into the driveway Past the gate and the fine trimmed lawn

And she said "We must get together", but I knew it never be arranged

So she hand me twen-ty doll-ar for a two fifty fare

She said "Harry, keep the change"

Well, another man might have been angry,

and another man might have been hurt

But another man never would have let her go

I stashed the bill in my shirt

G Em A D D (add C#)

And she walked away in silence its strange how you never

know But we'd both gottem what we'd asked for such a

long, long time ago

You see she was gonna be an actress, and I was going to learn to fly

She took off to find the footlights, and I took off to find the sky

And here she's acting happy Inside her handsome

home And me I'm flying in my ta - xi

taking tips, and getting stoned

I go fly - ing so high

When I'm stoned

repeat and fade

Chords used:

D Am ** C * (bar) G

Em A D (add C#) Bm

B6 1 1 1 1 1 1

This is quite a song. If there are any corrections, additions, etc, please let me know.

Brad Morris

b-morris@uchicago.edu