Chords for Harry Chapin - Taxi - 10/21/1978 - Capitol Theatre (Official)

_ _ Alright, thank you! _ _
_ _ _ _ You guys are outrageous!
[Am] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _
[E] _ _ _ Thanks for coming, I [D] appreciate it.
[E] _ _ _ _ Anybody wants to sing along, they can.
I can use all the help.
I haven't got Big [D] John tonight. _
It was raining hard in Frisco
[Am] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _
[E] I needed one more fan to make my night
The lady over here, she waved the flag mid-night
[C] She got [Bb] in with the [D] light _
_ _ _ _ Oh, [D] where you going [Am] to, [D] Lady Blue?
[Am] It's [D] a shame [E] you ruined your gown in the rain
_ She just looked out the window
She [C] said, [Bb] 16 [D] Parkside Lane
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ Something [E] about her was familiar
_ I could swear I'd seen her face before
But she said, I'm sure you're mistaken
_ [C] And she didn't [Bb] say anything [D] more
[E] It _ _ _ took a while, but she looked in the mirror _
Then she glanced at the license for my name
A smile seemed to come to her slowly
It [C] was a sad [Bb] smile, [D] just the [E] same _
_ _ _ And she [G] said, how [D] are you, Harry?
_ [C] I said, [G] how are [D] you, Sue?
_ Through the [Em] too many miles and the [Bm] too little smiles
I still _ _ [A] _ remember [D] you
[E] _
_ _ _ _ It was somewhere in a fairytale
_ I used to take her home in my car
We learned about love in the back of a Dodge
[C] The lesson [Bb] hadn't gone too [D] far
[E] _ _ _ _
You [G] see, she was gonna be [Em] an actress
_ [D] And I was gonna learn [Bm] to fly
She [G] _ took off to [D] find the footlights
[C] I [Bb] took off to [D] find the [E] sky
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Oh, I've got something inside [Bm] me
To drive a [E] princess blind
[A] There's a [Em] wild man [E] wizard
He's hiding in [D] me, _ _ [Em] illuminating my mind _ _ _ _ _
[C] Oh, I've got something inside [Bm] me
But it's not what my life's about _ _
Cause [Em] I've been letting my outside tide me
[Dm] Over till my _ time _ [Eb] runs _ out
Now, Big [Dm] John isn't here to do the high part,
so I'm gonna do it down an octave.
Forgive [F] me.
_ _ _ Come to Mars Town Station in a couple weeks
and he'll sing it for you. _ _ _
_ _ _ Baby, so high that [G] she's _ [Em] _ skyin' _
Yes, [G] she's _ _ flyin' _
Afraid [C] to _ fall _ _
_ _ [F] _ I'll tell you why [Em] baby's _ _ _ cryin'
Cause [Am] she's _ _ _ dyin'
_ Aren't [G] we _ [D] all?
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[Am] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [E] Now, the two spoken lines are yours,
plus the last line in the song.
I want everybody to do like they were singing
the National Anthem.
_ [D] _ _
[Am] There [D] was not much [E] more for us to talk about
Whatever we had once was gone
So I turned my cab into the driveway
_ [C] Past the gate [Bb] and the fine [D] trim [E] logs
_ _ _ _ And she said, we must get together
_ But I knew it'd never be arranged
Then she handed me twenty dollars for a two-fifty fare
She [C] said, I _ [D] _ _ _ love him
_ Well, another man might have been angry
And another man might have been hurt
_ But another [E] man never would have let her go
So [C] I, _ [Bb] _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _
[G] and she walked away [D] in silence
[G] It's strange, I, you never [D] know
But [G] we'd [Em] both gotten what we'd asked [Bm] for
[Em] Such a _ _ [A] long, long [D] time ago
[E] You see, she was gonna be an actress
Sing it with me
You see, she was gonna be an actress _
And I was gonna learn to fly _ _
_ She took off to find the footlights
[C] I took off [D] for the [E] sky
And here she's actin' happy
And [G] here she's [Em] actin' happy
_ Inside [D] her handsome [Bm] home
And me, _ [G] _ I'm flyin' in my [D] taxi _ Diggin' [Bb] tickets
_ _ [D] _ Everybody sing along with me
[B] I go [Em] _ _ _ _ _
flyin' [A] so high _ _ _
When [D] I'm _ _ _ _ _ stoned _ _ _ _ _
How about me, gentlemen?
[N] _ _ Thank you _ _ _ _ _ _
You've got a hard life _ _ _ _ _
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