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To: jamesb@animal-farm.nevada.edu
Subject: /Chapin Harry/Taxi.tab
Taxi
(Harry Chapin)
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It was raining hard in Frisco I needed
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one more fair to make my night A lady up ahead waved to
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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"
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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"
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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
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And she said "How are you Harry" I said "how are you
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Sue" Through the too many miles and too little smiles
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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
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lessons hadn't gone to far
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You see she was going to be an actress And I was gonna learn to
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fly She took off to find the footlights, I
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took off to find the sky
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I've got something inside me, to make a princesess blind
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Theres a wild man wiz-ard he's hiding in me, illuminatin' my mind
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I've got something inside me, not what my life's about
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Cause I've been letting my outside tide me over till my time runs out
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/h/harry_chapin/taxi_tab.html ]
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Some harmonic stuff (no idea)
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There was not much more for us
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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"
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Well, another man might have been angry,
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and another man might have been hurt
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But another man never would have let her go
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I stashed the bill in my shirt
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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
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long, long time ago
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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
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And here she's acting happy Inside her handsome
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home And me I'm flying in my ta - xi
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taking tips, and getting stoned
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I go fly - ing so high
When I'm stoned
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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
