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 Bb D 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 Bb D She 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 Bb D 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 Bb for my name, A smile seemed to come to her slowly, it was a sad smile just D the same, G D C G D And she said how are you Harry, I said How are you Sue, G Em D Bm C Bb D Through 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 Bb We learned about love in the back of a Dodge, the lessons hadn’t gone to D far, G Em D Bm You see she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly G Bm C Bb D She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky Bridge C Bm E Ive got something inside me, to make a princess blind, C Em Am Em C Em Am D Em There's a wild man wizard hes hiding in me, illuminatin my mind, C Bm E Ive got something inside me, not what my life's about C Em Am Em C Em Am 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 Bb So I turned my cab into the driveway, past the gate and the fine trimmed D lawn, D-Am7 And she said we must get together, but I knew It'd never be arranged C Bb So she hand me twenty dollar for a two fifty fare and said Harry, Keep the D change 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 Bb hurt, but another man never would have let her go, I stashed the bill in my D shirt, G Em D Bm And she walked away in silence, its strange how you never know, G D Bm G D 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 Bb D She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky G D C G D And here's she's acting happy, inside her handsome home, G D Bm C Bb D-Am7 and me I fly in my taxi, taking tips and gettin stoned G A D-Am7 I go fly---ing so high, when Im stoned
