Taxi Harry

Then it' unveiled she's Sue, an old Harry boyhood flaming. Harry recalls in the flash-back how he "brought her home in his car" and also how they "experienced a dodge of charity in the back," and adds: "The lessons hadn't gone too far. "Sue wanted to be an actor while Harry wanted to study flying (suggesting Chapin's previous practical experiences at the United States Air Force Academy).

Sue " took off to find the ramps" and Harry " took off to find the sky". "The bassist John Wallace sings the following rows in Falsett in the central part of the song: Harry spoke the above texts about John's falsetto voice on an early mixture of the songs that was only published on radios.

At Sue' s home, Harry comes, where she volunteers to meet him at some point, and Harry knows that "it would never be arranged". "Says Sue paid him a $20 bill for a $2.50 ticket and said, "Harry, keep the change. Harry, Harry. "Harry has different emotions about this gestures, but "hid the bill in his shirt".

" When Sue goes into her "beautiful home," Harry eventually finds that "[they] both got what they asked for so long, so long ago: Now Sue " feels "happy" in a unloving wedding, while he "flies" by taking a taxi and getting "stoned". "In 1980 Chapin continued to write and compose a sequel to the track "Sequel", which he published on the eponymous record.

In the same way as "Taxi", it follows the history of Harry and Sue, where they meet again ten years later. Published as a singles, "Sequel" reached a higher rank, but took two less week on the Hot 100 than "Taxi". Chapterin jested that if he were to write a third act to the tune, it would be named "Hearse" so he could murder the people.

Chapterin passed away seven month after the climax of Sequel. Harry, who has meanwhile become a popular artist, has come back to San Francisco for a gig and has "to die eight and a half hour before the show". "Says he will take a taxi to Sue's 16 Parkside Lane adress ( after refusing the possibilities of the "limousine / Or at least a chic car") only to find out from the opener that she no longer exists there.

Harry is given the adress by the bus man to which Sue's letter is routed, which Harry gives the taxi rider along with cash for a different ticket. Sue Harry recognises the house as a run-down sandstone apartment: When she is asked to Harry's concerto, she refuses the offer by acknowledging that she works at nights.

Otherwise, Harry is hypocritical of her return and urges the audience not to ask for detail by saying, "If I even replied, I would be lying. "It ends with: Half the times, I suppose, it's a continuation of our tale of the trip between hell and sky, half the times, reflecting on what could have been and half the times, half the times, half the time, thinking as well.

Chapin Harry, Chapin was given the inspiration to compose the tune when he met an old enthusiast, as the taxi driver does in the tune. It was Chapin on her way to a taxi licence exam in New York City, not San Francisco. And Chapin also said that "taxi" was only "about sixty per cent true."

Quite the opposite, when Chapin was asked by John Denver about the tune, he said that he had been reading a paper story about his ex-girlfriend who had marry a wealthy man in the same weeks that his taxi licence was due to go through. Chapin said he would write the tune. But in the weeks when his driver's licence was to come through, he got a big movie work and didn't have to take a taxi.

" Mandy Patinkin covers the track on his experimental record. Lee Hazlewood covers the track on his I' ll be Your Baby Tonight cd.