Taxi Harry Chapin
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Taxi
(Harry Chapin)
[C] [Gm] [C] [Gm] [C] [Gm]
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[C] [Gm] [C] [Gm] [C] [Gm]
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It was raining hard in Frisco I needed
[C] [Gm] [C] [Gm] [C] [Gm]
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one more fair to make my night A lady up ahead waved to
[C] [Gm] [Bb] [G#] [C] [Gm]
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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"
[C] [Gm] [C] [Gm] [Bb] [G#]
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C C Bb D Am **
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D Am **
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Something about her was familier,
I could swear I'd seen that face before
But she said "I'm sure you're mistaken"
D Am ** C * Bb D Am **
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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
[G] [D] [C] [G]
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And she said "How are you Harry" I said "how are you
[D] [G] [D] [Bm]
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Sue" Through the too many miles and too little smiles
G D Am **
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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
C * Bb D Am ** D Am **
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lessons hadn't gone to far
[G] [Em] [A] [D] [D] [(add] [C#)]
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You see she was going to be an actress And I was gonna learn to
[Bm] [G] [D] [Bm]
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fly She took off to find the footlights, I
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took off to find the sky
[C]I've got something inside me, t[Bm]o make a princesess b[E]lind
Theres a [C]wild [Em]man [Am]wiz-[Em]ard [C]he's hiding [Em]in [Am]me, [D]illuminatin' my [Em]mind
[C]I've got something inside me, no[Bm]t what my life's a[E]bout
Cause [C]I've [Em]been [Am]letting [Em]my [C]outside [Em]tide [Am]me [F]over till my time runs ou[A#]t
[D#] [A#] [F] [A#] [D#] [F]
Some harmonic stuff (no idea)
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There was not much more for us
D Am ** D Am ** D Am **
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to talk about Whatever we had once was gone So I turned my cab
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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, [D]another [D]man [Am]mig[Am]ht [Am]hav[Am]e been [D]angr[D]y,[Am] [Am] [Am] [Am]
and [D]another [D]man [Am]mig[Am]ht [Am]have been [D]hurt[D] [Am] [Am] [Am] [Am]
But [D]another [D]man [Am]nev[Am]er [Am]wou[Am]ld have [D]let [D]her [Am]go[Am] [Am] [Am]
[C]I stashed the [Bb]bill in my [D]sh[Am]irt[Am] [Am] [Am] [D] [D] [D] [Am] [Am] [Am]
[G] [Em] [A] [D] [D] [(add] [C#)]
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And she walked away in silence its strange how you never
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know But we'd both gottem what we'd asked for such a
G D Am **
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long, long time ago
D Am **
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
[G] [D] [C] [G]
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And here she's acting happy Inside her handsome
[D] [G] [D] [Bm]
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home And me I'm flying in my ta - xi
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taking tips, and getting stoned
[G]I go fly - ing so [A]high
When I'm stoned
D Am **
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repeat and fade
Chords used:
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This is quite a song. If there are any corrections, additions, etc, please let me know.
Brad Morris
b-morris@uchicago.edu
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