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To: jamesb@animal-farm.nevada.edu
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Taxi
(Harry Chapin)
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C Gm C Gm C Gm
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C Gm Bb G# C Gm
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"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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D Am **
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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"
D Am ** C * Bb D Am **
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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
G D C G
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D G D Bm
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G D Am **
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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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G Em A D D (add C#)
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C Bm E
I've got something inside me, to make a princesess blind
C Em Am Em C Em Am D Em
Theres a wild man wiz-ard he's hiding in me, illuminatin' my mind
C Bm E
I've got something inside me, not what my life's about
C Em Am Em C Em Am F A#
Cause I've been letting my outside tide me over till my time runs out
D# A# F A# D# F
Some harmonic stuff (no idea)
D Am ** D Am ** D Am **
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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,
D D Am Am Am D D Am Am Am Am
and another man might have been hurt
D D Am Am Am Am D D Am Am Am Am
But another man never would have let her go
C Bb D Am Am Am Am D D D Am Am Am
I stashed the bill in my shirt
G Em A D D (add C#)
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G D Am **
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D Am **
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
G D C G
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D G D Bm
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C * Bb D Am ** D Am **
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G A
I go fly - ing so high
When I'm stoned
D Am **
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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
