Taxi chords by Harry Chapin

Chords with lyrics

D MajorD - A minorAm - D MajorD - A minorAm - D MajorD - A minorAm - D MajorD - A minorAm

    D MajorD      A minorAm  D MajorD A minorAm
It was raining hard in Frisco

     D MajorD     A minorAm     D MajorD    A minorAm
I needed one more fare to make my night

 D MajorD    A minorAm      D MajorD      A minorAm
A augmentedA lady up ahead waved to flag me down

C majorC    Bb majorBb       D MajorD    D MajorD Am/D D MajorD Am/D
She got in at the light

D MajorD        Am/D  D MajorD  Am/D
Where you going to my Lady Blue

     D MajorD   Am/D    D MajorD   Am/D   D MajorD  Am/D
It?s a shame you ruined your gown in the rain

D MajorD      Am/D    D MajorD    Am/D
She just looked out the window

      C majorC     Bb majorBb
She said, "16 Parkside Lane."

D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D - C majorC - Bb majorBb - D MajorD - C majorC - Bb majorBb - D MajorD - Am/D

 D MajorD     Am/D     D MajorD    Am/D
Something about her was familiar

    D MajorD         Am/D    D MajorD  Am/D
I could swear I seen her face before

    D MajorD     Am/D      D MajorD    Am/D
But she said, "I?m sure you?re mistaken."

    C majorC     Bb majorBb       D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D
And she didn?t say anything more.

        D MajorD     Am/D     D MajorD    Am/D
It, took a while but she looked in the mirror

     D MajorD       Am/D    D MajorD    Am/D
Then she glanced at the license for my name

  D MajorD       Am/D    D MajorD    Am/D
A augmentedA smile seemed to come to her slowly.

    C majorC    Bb majorBb     D MajorD   Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D
It was a sad smile just the same

    G+G          D MajorD
And she said, "How are you, Harry?"

 C majorC     G+G        D MajorD
I said, "How are you, Sue?

      G+G           D MajorD     B minorBm
Through the too many miles and the too little smiles

 E minor 7Em7 Em/A    D MajorD   Am/D
I still remember you."

D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D
D MajorD - Am/D - C majorC - Bb majorBb - D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD

Am/D  D MajorD   Am/D   D MajorD   Am/D
It was somewhere in a fairy tale

 D MajorD        Am/D    D MajorD   Am/D
I used to take her home in my car

  D MajorD      Am/D    D MajorD        Am/D
We learned about love in the back of a Dodge,

  C majorC       Bb majorBb      D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D
The lesson hadn?t gone too far

     G+G          E minorEm
You see, she was gonna be an actress

  D MajorD            B minorBm
And I was gonna learn to fly

 G+G            D MajorD
She took off to find the footlights,

C majorC    Bb majorBb      D MajorD  Am/D
I took off to find the sky.

D MajorD - C majorC - C majorC - C majorC

  C majorC
Oh, I've got something inside me

B minorBm          E7E7
To drive the princess blind

     A minorAm Am/GAm/G Am/F# Am/GAm/G A minorAm   Am/F# Am/E
There?s a wild man wizard he?s hiding in me

D MajorD        E minorEm
Illuminating my mind

C majorC
I got something inside me

B minorBm            E7E7
Not what my life?s about

A minorAm    Am/GAm/G Gm/F# Am/GAm/G A minorAm  Am/GAm/G Am/F#
?Cause I been letting my outside tide me

Bbmaj7Bbmaj7         Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
Over ?til my time runs out.

Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 - Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 - Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 - Bbmaj7Bbmaj7 - FF

FF             Cmaj7Cmaj7
Baby?s so high that she?s skying

      Gm7Gm7          C7C7
Yeah she?s flying, but afraid to fall

FF         Fmaj7Fmaj7    E minorEm
And I?ll tell you why Baby?s crying

       Am9Am9       Gm9Gm9  D MajorD Am/D
?Cause she?s dying, aren?t we all?

     D MajorD    Am/D      D MajorD      Am/D
There was not much more for us to talk about

  D MajorD    Am/D     D MajorD   Am/D
Whatever we had once was gone.

   D MajorD      Am/D    D MajorD    Am/D
So I turned the cab into the driveway

     C majorC      Bb majorBb          D MajorD - Am/D
Past the gate and the fine trimmed lawns

    D MajorD     Am/D
And she said, "We must get together."

    D MajorD       Am/D     D MajorD - Am/D
But I knew it?d never be arranged.

     D MajorD       Am/D     D MajorD     Am/D
And she handed me twenty dollars for a two-fifty fare

      C majorC    Bb majorBb
She said, "Harry, keep the change."

D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D

   Dadd2
Well another man might have been angry

And another man might have been hurt

But another man never would have let her go

C majorC       Bb majorBb        D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D
I stashed the bill in my shirt.

    G+G        D MajorD
And she walked away in silence

   C majorC       G+G      D MajorD
It?s strange how you never know

  G+G             D MajorD   B minorBm
But we?d both gotten what we?d asked for

    E minor 7Em7  Em/A    D MajorD  Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D
Such a long, long time ago

  D MajorD  Am/D       D MajorD   Am/D
You see, she was gonna be an actress

  D MajorD      Am/D     D MajorD  Am/D
And I was gonna learn to fly

D MajorD     Am/D      D MajorD     Am/D
She took off to find the footlights

C majorC    Bb majorBb         D MajorD - Am/D - D MajorD - Am/D
I took off to find the sky

  G+G          E minorEm
And here she?s acting happy,

D MajorD             B minorBm
Inside her handsome home

  G+G          D MajorD
And me I?m flying in my taxi

    C majorC Bb majorBb      D MajorD
Taking tips and getting stoned

   E minorEm     A augmentedA       D MajorD  Am/D D MajorD - Am/D
I go flying so high when I?m stoned

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Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Taxi by Harry Chapin