Taxi chords by Harry Chapin

D - Am - D - Am - D - Am - D - Am

       D           Am   D  Am
It was raining hard in Frisco

         D          Am          D        Am
I needed one more fare to make my night

  D        Am            D            Am
A lady up ahead waved to flag me down

C        Bb             D       D  Am/D  D Am/D
She got in at the light

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

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

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

           C         Bb
She said, "16 Parkside Lane."

D - Am/D - D - Am/D - C - Bb - D - C - Bb - D - Am/D

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

            G                      D         Bm
Through the too many miles and the too little smiles

  Em7 Em/A       D      Am/D
I still remember you."

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D - Am/D - C - Bb - D - Am/D - D

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

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

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

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

         G                   Em
You see, she was gonna be an actress

    D                        Bm
And I was gonna learn to fly

 G                       D
She took off to find the footlights,

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

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    C
Oh, I've got something inside me

Bm                    E7
To drive the princess blind

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

D               Em
Illuminating my mind

C
I got something inside me

Bm                        E7
Not what my life?s about

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

Bbmaj7                 Ebmaj7
Over ?til my time runs out.

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F                         Cmaj7
Baby?s so high that she?s skying

           Gm7                   C7
Yeah she?s flying, but afraid to fall

F                 Fmaj7        Em
And I?ll tell you why Baby?s crying

             Am9              Gm9    D  Am/D
?Cause she?s dying, aren?t we all?


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

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

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

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

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

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But I knew it?d never be arranged.

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

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

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      Dadd2
Well another man might have been angry

And another man might have been hurt

But another man never would have let her go

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I stashed the bill in my shirt.

        G                D
And she walked away in silence

      C              G           D
It?s strange how you never know

    G                          D     Bm
But we?d both gotten what we?d asked for

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Such a long, long time ago

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

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

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

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

    G                   Em
And here she?s acting happy,

D                         Bm
Inside her handsome home

    G                   D
And me I?m flying in my taxi

       C  Bb            D
Taking tips and getting stoned

      Em         A             D   Am/D  D - Am/D
I go flying so high when I?m stoned