This is a great Harry Chapin song and I hope you all enjoy it as much
as I do.
Sequel
Harry Chapin (klr)
G Em D Bm
So here she's actin' happy, inside her handsome home
G D C Bb
And me, I'm flyin' in my taxi, taking tips and
D
gettin' stoned
D Am
I got into town a little early
Had eight hours to kill before the show
First I though about heading up north of the bay
C Bb D
Then I knew where I had to go
D Am
I thought about taking a limousine
Or at least a fancy car
But I ended up taking a "Taxi'
C Bb D
'Cause that's how I this far
G Em
You see ten years ago it was the front seat
D Bm
Drivin' stoned and feelin' no pain
G D
Now here I am straight and sittin' in the back
C Bb D C Bb D
Hitting Sixteen Parkside Lane
C E
E Bm
The driveway was the same as I remembered
And a butler came and answered the door
He just shook his head when I asked for her
D C E D C E
And said "She doesn't live here anymore
E Bm
But he offered to give me the address
That they were forwarding her letters to
I just took it and returned to the cabbie
D C E D C E
And said "I got one more fare for you."
E G
And so we rolled back into the city
A C
Up to a five story old brown stone
D E
I rang the bell that had her name on the mailbox
D E D C E C D
The buzzer said somebody's home
E
E G
And the look on her face as she opened the door
A C
Was like an old joke told by a friend
D E
It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile
D E
And I watched the corners start to bend
A B7
And she said, ?How are you Harry?
E
Haven't we played this scene before??
A E
I said, "It's so good to see you , Sue.
D C
Had to play it out just once E more
D E
Play it out just once more."
E Bm
She said ?I've heard you flying high on my radio.?
I answered "It's not all it seem."
That's when she laughed and she said,
"It's better sometimes, when we don't D get to touch our E dreams."
D - E x2
A F#m
That's when I asked her where was that actress
E C#m
She said "That was somebody else."
A E
And then I asked her why she looked so happy now
D E
She said, "I finally like myself, at last I like myself."
E Abm E7 E7/Db F#m D7 C E
E
So we talked all through that afternoon
Abm
Talking about where we'd been
E7
We talked of the tiny difference
E7/Db
Between ending and starting to begin
F#m
We talked ?cause talking tells you things
D7
Like what you are really thinking about
C
But sometimes you can't find what you're feeling
E
?Til all the words run out
E Bm
So I asked her to come to the concert
She said ?No, I work at night."
I said, ?We've gotten to damn good at leaving, Sue."
D C E D E D E
She said, ? Harry, your right."
A F#m
Don't ask me if I made love to her
E
Or which one of us started to cry.
A E
Don't ask me why she wouldn't take the money that I left.
D E D C E C Bb D
If I answered at all I'd lie.
Am D
So I thought about her as I sang that night
And how the circle keeps rolling around
How I act as I'm facing the footlights
C Bb D
And how she's flying with both feet on the ground
G Em
I guess it's a sequel to our story
D Bm
>From the journey ?tween heaven and hell
G D
With half the time thinking of what might have been been
C Bb D
And half thinkin' just as well
G A7 D
I guess only time will tell
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