"Taxi"
Single by Harry Chapin
Released	1972
Format	45
Genre	Rock
Writer(s)	Harry Chapin

Taxi is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin, from his album Heads and Tales (1972). The single helped establish Chapin's musical style and fame, and as a result many Chapin items, including the family website feature taxi-related imagery. Image File history File links Nocover. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. ... [[ For other uses, see Song (disambiguation). ... Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. ... Heads and Tales is the first studio album by the American singer/songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1972. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Taxicab, short forms taxi or cab, is a type of public transport for a single passenger, or small group of passengers, typically for a non-shared ride. ...

The song, at 6 minutes, 44 seconds, tells the story of a cab driver in San Francisco (also named 'Harry') who encounters his last fare for the night in the rain, and discovers she was his old lover, 'Sue'. She in turn recognises him: This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

She said, 'How are you, Harry?'

I said, 'How are you, Sue?

Through the too many miles and the too little smiles,

I still remember you.'

Sue had wanted to be an actress, while Harry was going to learn to fly--'She took off to find the footlights/ I took off to find the sky.'

The reunion, however, does not result in a happy ending. Harry drives her back to her home, where '[S]he's acting happy, inside her handsome walls'. Harry, meanwhile, continues to 'fly, so high/ When I'm stoned.' A happy ending is an ending of the plot of a work of fiction in which most everything turns out for the best for the hero or heroine, their sidekicks, and just about everyone but the villains. ...

According to the liner notes in The Essentials: Harry Chapin, Chapin was inspired to write the song when he happenned upon an old lover, almost like the cabbie in the song does. Chapin, however, was merely on his way to a taxi licence examination. Look up cabbie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Taxi driver has several meanings: A taxi driver or cabbie is a person who drives a taxicab for income. ...

The song was covered by William Shatner in a performance on the Dinah Shore Show. William Bill Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian actor, who gained fame for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. ... Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore February 29, 1916 - February 24, 1994) was an American singer and actress. ...