Harry Chapin – Taxi (Ukulele)

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It was raining hard in Frisco, I needed one more fair to make my night, 

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A lady up ahead waved to flag me down and she got in at the light, 

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Where are you going my lady blue, its a shame you ruined you gown in the rain, 

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She just looked out the window, she said sixteen parkside lane, 

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Something about her was familiar, I could swear I seen that face before, 

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But she said Im sure your mistaken, and she didnt say anything more, 

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It took a while but she looked in the mirror and she glanced at the license 

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for my name, A smile seemed to come to her slowly, it was a sad smile just 

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the same, 

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And she said how are you Harry, I said How are you Sue, 

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Through the too many miles and two little smiles I still--- remember you 

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It was somewhere in a fairy tale, I used to drive her home in my car, 

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We learned about love in the back of a Dodge, the lessons hadn’t gone to    

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far, 

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You see she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly 

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She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky 

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Ive got something inside me, to make a princess blind, 

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There's a wild man wizard hes hiding in me, illuminatin my mind, 

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Ive got something inside me, not what my life's about 

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Cause Ive been letting my outside tide me over till my time runs out 

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There was not much more for us to talk about, whatever we once had was gone,  

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So I turned my cab into the driveway, past the gate and the fine trimmed 

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lawn, 

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And she said we must get together, but I knew It'd never be arranged 

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So she hand me twenty dollar for a two fifty fare and said Harry, Keep the

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change 

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Well another man might have been angry, and another man might have been 

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hurt, but another man never would have let her go, I stashed the bill in my 

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shirt, 

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And she walked away in silence, its strange how you never know, 

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But we'd both gotten what we'd asked for, such a long, long, time ago, 

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You see she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly, 

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She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky 

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And here's she's acting happy, inside her handsome home, 

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and me I fly in my taxi, taking tips and gettin stoned 

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I go fly---ing so high, when Im stoned