Biography:
Harry Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer and songwriter. Chapin's debut album, Heads and Tales (1972), was a success thanks to the single "Taxi". His follow-up album, Sniper and Other Love Songs, was less successful; but his third, Short Stories, was a major success. Verities & Balderdash, released soon after, was even more successful, bolstered by the chart-topping hit single "Cat's in the Cradle". He also wrote and performed a Broadway musical, The Night That Made America Famous.
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Other songs:
- Cats In The Cradle
- Circle
- Dreams Go By
- Tangled Up Puppet
- Cat’s In The Cradle
- 30000 Pounds Of Bananas
- A Better Place To Be
- A Better Place To Be Version 2
- All My Lifes A Circle
- Any Old Kind Of Day
- Better Place To Be
- Copper
- Coreys Coming
- Coreys Coming Long
- Could You Put Your Light On Please
- Flowers Are Red
- I Wanna Learn A Love Song
- I Wonder What Happened To Him
- I Wonder What Would Happen To This World
- Jenny
- Last Of The Protest Singers
- Last Stand
- Let Time Go Lightly
- Mail Order Annie
- Mr Tanner
- November Rains
- Old Folkie
- Poor Damned Fool
- Remember When The Music
- Saturday Morning
- Sequel
- She Is Always Seventeen
- Shooting Star
- Six String Orchestra
- Story Of A Life
- Stranger With The Melodies
- Sunday Morning Sunshine
- Taxi
- The Rock
- The Shortest Story
- What Made America Famous
- Wold
- You Are The Only Song
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Taxi-Harry Chapin
A guy kept requesting this song and i couldn't find a simple chord chart on here
so here one is, it is only a rough guide but it should get you through a performance.
(D to Am7 vamp throughout most of verse, listen to the song for the picking)
[Verse]
D-Am7
It was raining hard in Frisco, I needed one more fair to make my night,
C Bb D
A lady up ahead waved to flag me down and she got in at the light,
D-Am7
Where are you going my lady blue, its a shame you ruined you gown in the rain,
C Bb D
She just looked out the window, she said sixteen parkside lane,
D-Am7
Something about her was familiar, I could swear I seen that face before,
C Bb D
But she said Im sure your mistaken, and she didnt say anything more,
D-Am7
It took a while but she looked in the mirror and she glanced at the license
C Bb
for my name, A smile seemed to come to her slowly, it was a sad smile just
D
the same,
G D C G D
And she said how are you Harry, I said How are you Sue,
G Em D Bm C Bb D
Through the too many miles and two little smiles I still--- remember you
D-Am7
It was somewhere in a fairy tale, I used to drive her home in my car,
C Bb
We learned about love in the back of a Dodge, the lessons hadn’t gone to
D
far,
G Em D Bm
You see she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly
G Bm C Bb D
She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky
[Bridge]
C Bm E
Ive got something inside me, to make a princess blind,
C Em Am Em C Em Am D Em
There's a wild man wizard hes hiding in me, illuminatin my mind,
C Bm E
Ive got something inside me, not what my life's about
C Em Am Em C Em Am F
Cause Ive been letting my outside tide me over till my time runs out
Weird high singing interlude, I just play some jazzy 7 chords. If anyone has the
chords or lyrics for this section please post or send them to me.
[Verse]
D-Am7
There was not much more for us to talk about, whatever we once had was gone,
C Bb
So I turned my cab into the driveway, past the gate and the fine trimmed
D
lawn,
D-Am7
And she said we must get together, but I knew It'd never be arranged
C Bb
So she hand me twenty dollar for a two fifty fare and said Harry, Keep the
D
change
D-Am7 (same chords and timing but full strum not picked)
Well another man might have been angry, and another man might have been
C Bb
hurt, but another man never would have let her go, I stashed the bill in my
D
shirt,
G Em D Bm
And she walked away in silence, its strange how you never know,
G D Bm G D
But we'd both gotten what we'd asked for, such a long, long, time ago,
D-Am7 (Strummed)
You see she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly,
C Bb D
She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky
G D C G D
And here's she's acting happy, inside her handsome home,
G D Bm C Bb D-Am7
and me I fly in my taxi, taking tips and gettin stoned
G A D-Am7
I go fly---ing so high, when Im stoned
A guy kept requesting this song and i couldn't find a simple chord chart on here
so here one is, it is only a rough guide but it should get you through a performance.
(D to Am7 vamp throughout most of verse, listen to the song for the picking)
[Verse]
D-Am7
It was raining hard in Frisco, I needed one more fair to make my night,
C Bb D
A lady up ahead waved to flag me down and she got in at the light,
D-Am7
Where are you going my lady blue, its a shame you ruined you gown in the rain,
C Bb D
She just looked out the window, she said sixteen parkside lane,
D-Am7
Something about her was familiar, I could swear I seen that face before,
C Bb D
But she said Im sure your mistaken, and she didnt say anything more,
D-Am7
It took a while but she looked in the mirror and she glanced at the license
C Bb
for my name, A smile seemed to come to her slowly, it was a sad smile just
D
the same,
G D C G D
And she said how are you Harry, I said How are you Sue,
G Em D Bm C Bb D
Through the too many miles and two little smiles I still--- remember you
D-Am7
It was somewhere in a fairy tale, I used to drive her home in my car,
C Bb
We learned about love in the back of a Dodge, the lessons hadn’t gone to
D
far,
G Em D Bm
You see she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly
G Bm C Bb D
She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky
[Bridge]
C Bm E
Ive got something inside me, to make a princess blind,
C Em Am Em C Em Am D Em
There's a wild man wizard hes hiding in me, illuminatin my mind,
C Bm E
Ive got something inside me, not what my life's about
C Em Am Em C Em Am F
Cause Ive been letting my outside tide me over till my time runs out
Weird high singing interlude, I just play some jazzy 7 chords. If anyone has the
chords or lyrics for this section please post or send them to me.
[Verse]
D-Am7
There was not much more for us to talk about, whatever we once had was gone,
C Bb
So I turned my cab into the driveway, past the gate and the fine trimmed
D
lawn,
D-Am7
And she said we must get together, but I knew It'd never be arranged
C Bb
So she hand me twenty dollar for a two fifty fare and said Harry, Keep the
D
change
D-Am7 (same chords and timing but full strum not picked)
Well another man might have been angry, and another man might have been
C Bb
hurt, but another man never would have let her go, I stashed the bill in my
D
shirt,
G Em D Bm
And she walked away in silence, its strange how you never know,
G D Bm G D
But we'd both gotten what we'd asked for, such a long, long, time ago,
D-Am7 (Strummed)
You see she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly,
C Bb D
She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky
G D C G D
And here's she's acting happy, inside her handsome home,
G D Bm C Bb D-Am7
and me I fly in my taxi, taking tips and gettin stoned
G A D-Am7
I go fly---ing so high, when Im stoned
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