Taxi-Harry Chapin
A guy kept requesting this song and i couldn't find a simple chord chart on here
so here one is, it is only a rough guide but it should get you through a performance.
(D to Am7 vamp throughout most of verse, listen to the song for the picking)
D-Am7
It was raining hard in Frisco, I needed one more fair to make my night,
C (x32010@1) Bb (x1333x@1) D (xx0232@1)A lady up ahead waved to flag me down and she got in at the light,
D-Am7
Where are you going my lady blue, its a shame you ruined you gown in the rain,
C (x32010@1) Bb (x1333x@1) DShe (xx0232@1)just looked out the window, she said sixteen parkside lane,
D-Am7
Something about her was familiar, I could swear I seen that face before,
C (x32010@1) Bb (x1333x@1) D (xx0232@1)But she said Im sure your mistaken, and she didnt say anything more,
D-Am7
It took a while but she looked in the mirror and she glanced at the license
C (x32010@1) Bbfor (x1333x@1)my name, A smile seemed to come to her slowly, it was a sad smile just
Dthe (xx0232@1)same,
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)And she said how are you Harry, I said How are you Sue,
G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1) C (x32010@1) Bb (x1333x@1) DThrough (xx0232@1)the too many miles and two little smiles I still--- remember you
D-Am7
It was somewhere in a fairy tale, I used to drive her home in my car,
C (x32010@1) Bb (x1333x@1)
We learned about love in the back of a Dodge, the lessons hadn't gone to
Dfar, (xx0232@1)
G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) D (xx0232@1) BmYou (x24432@1)see she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly
G (320003@1) Bm (x24432@1) C (x32010@1) Bb (x1333x@1) DShe (xx0232@1)took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky
Bridge
C (x32010@1) Bm (x24432@1) E (022100@1)Ive got something inside me, to make a princess blind,
C (x32010@1) Em (022000@1) Am (x02210@1)Em (022000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C Em (022000@1)name="chord_x02210@1">Am D (xx0232@1) Em (022000@1)There's a wild man wizard hes hiding in me, illuminatin my mind,
C (x32010@1) Bm (x24432@1) E (022100@1)Ive got something inside me, not what my life's about
C (x32010@1) Em (022000@1) Am (x02210@1) Em (022000@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C Em (022000@1) Am (x02210@1)name="chord_133211@1">F
Cause Ive been letting my outside tide me over till my time runs out
Weird high singing interlude, I just play some jazzy 7 chords. If anyone has the
chords or lyrics for this section please post or send them to me.
D-Am7
There was not much more for us to talk about, whatever we once had was gone,
C (x32010@1) BbSo (x1333x@1)I turned my cab into the driveway, past the gate and the fine trimmed
Dlawn, (xx0232@1)
D-Am7
And she said we must get together, but I knew It'd never be arranged
C (x32010@1) Bb (x1333x@1)
So she hand me twenty dollar for a two fifty fare and said Harry, Keep the
Dchange (xx0232@1)
D-Am7 (same chords and timing but full strum not picked)
Well another man might have been angry, and another man might have been
C (x32010@1) Bbhurt, (x1333x@1)but another man never would have let her go, I stashed the bill in my
Dshirt, (xx0232@1)
G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) D (xx0232@1) BmAnd (x24432@1)she walked away in silence, its strange how you never know,
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)
But we'd both gotten what we'd asked for, such a long, long, time ago,
D-Am7 (Strummed)
You see she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly,
C (x32010@1) Bb (x1333x@1) D (xx0232@1)
She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)And here's she's acting happy, inside her handsome home,
G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1) C (x32010@1) Bb (x1333x@1) D-Am7
and me I fly in my taxi, taking tips and gettin stoned
G (320003@1) A (x02220@1) D-Am7
I go fly---ing so high, when Im stoned
