Taxi Chords by Harry Chapin

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It _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ was raining _ [E] hard in Frisco _ _ I _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ needed [D] one more fan to make [Bm] my [G] night
A lady up ahead [D] waved her flag me down [C] She got in at the light
_ _ _ [B] _ [D] Oh, where you going to, my lady blue?
It's a shame you ruined your gown
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She just looked out the window She [C] said, [Bb] sixteen parts [D] I'd laid _ _
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_ Something about [D] her was familiar _ I could swear I'd seen her face before _
But she said, I'm sure you're mistaken And [C] she didn't [Bb] say anything [D] more
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_ [D] _ _ [A] It took a while but [Am] she looked in the [D] mirror _ Then she glanced at the [Am] license for
my name A smile seemed to come [D] to her slowly
It was a [Bb] sad smile, [D] just the same _ _ _ And she [G] _ said, how are [D] you, Harry? _
[C] I [G] said, how are you, Sue?
_ Through the too [Em] many miles
And the two [Bm] little smiles [Em] I still _ _ _ remember [D] you
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It was somewhere _ in a fairy tale I used to take her home in my car
_ We learned to find love in the back of a Dodge [C] The lesson hadn't [Bb] gone too far
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_ _ _ _ You see, [G] she was gonna [Em] be an actress _ And [D] I was gonna learn [B] to fly
_ [D] She [G]
took off to find the [D] footlights I [Bb] took off to [D] find the sky _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Oh, I've got _ something inside [Bm] me To drive a princess [E] _ blind
[Am] There's a wild, [Gb] fine [Em] prism inside [Am] of me _ [D] _
_ Illuminating my [Em] mind
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_ _ [C] Oh, I've got something inside me But it's [Bm] not what my [E] life's about
[Am] Cause I've been left my eyes _ [Bb] open Till my time _ [Eb] runs out
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Oh, she's there, _ [C] she's there, _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Am] she's there, _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Am] she's there
There _
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[E] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] was not much more for us to talk about _ [B] Whatever we had once was [D] gone
So I turned in my cabin to the driveway [D] _ [C] Passing the gate and [Bb] the fine trim [A] lawns
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And she said, we must get together _ But I knew it'd never be arranged
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Then [D] she handed me twenty dollars for a two-fifty fare
She [C] said, _ [Bb] Harry, keep [D] the change _ _ _ _ Well, another man might have been angry
And another man might have been hurt But another man never would have let her go
_ [C] I [G] stashed the bill in my [A] shirt _ [D] And [E]
she [G] walked away [D] in silence
[C] It's strange how you [D] never know But [Em] we'd both gotten [D] what we'd asked [Bm] for
[Em] Such a _ _ [A] long, long [D] time ago
Oh, _ _ _ you see, she was gonna be an actress _ And I was gonna learn to fly
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_ [D] She took off to find the footlights [Am] I took [Bb] off for the [D] sky _
_ _ _ _ [G] And here she's acting [E] happy [G] _ [D] Inside her handsome [B] home
_ [G] And me, I'm flying in [D] my taxi Taking [C] tips [Bb]
at [D] getting stoned _ _ _
[Em] I go _ _ flying _ _ [A] so _ high _ _ When [D] I'm _ stoned _ _
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