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"Taxi" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin from his 1972 album ''Heads and Tales''. Chapin debuted the song on NBC's ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' in 1972, which was followed by many calls and telegrams sent from viewers to NBC demanding that Chapin return to the show. It was the first time in the show's history that host Johnny Carson brought a performer back the very next night for an encore performance. "Taxi" thus front-lined his defining work. The single helped establish Chapin's musical style and fame, and as a result, many Chapin items featured taxi-related imagery. Legendary WMEX-Boston Radio Personality Jim Connors is credited with a Gold record for discovering Chapin and pushing his single "Taxi" to #24 on the ''Billboard'' charts, where it would last 16 weeks on the Hot 100, in the United States. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the No. 85 song for 1972.〔Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972〕 In Canada, the song reached number five, and is ranked as the No. 37 song for 1972. ==Content== The song tells the story of Harry, a cab driver, on a rainy night in San Francisco. He picks up a woman, his last fare for the night, and she asks to be taken to her home at 16 Parkside Lane. Harry finds the woman familiar at first, but she doesn't seem to recognize him until after she looks at him in the rear-view mirror and at his license. It is then revealed that she is Sue, Harry's old lover. In flashback, Harry remembers how he "used to take her home in () car" and also how they "learned about love in the back of a Dodge". Sue had wanted to be an actress, while Harry was going to learn to fly (hinting at Chapin's earlier real-life experience at the United States Air Force Academy). Their relationship ended when Sue "took off to find the footlights" and Harry "took off to find the sky". The middle section of the song features the bass player, John Wallace, in falsetto, singing the following lines, written by poet Sylvia Plath: :''Baby's so high, that she's skying'' :''Yes she's flying, afraid to fall'' :''I'll tell you why baby's crying'' :''Cause she's dying, aren't we all...'' Harry arrives at Sue's home where she offers to get together with him sometime, with Harry knowing "it'd never be arranged". Sue pays him a $20 bill for "a $2.50 fare" and says, "Harry, keep the change" to which he "stashed the bill in () shirt". As Sue walks into her "handsome home", Harry finally realizes that "() both gotten what () asked for such a long, long time ago": Sue is now "acting happy" in a loveless marriage, while he is "flying" by driving a taxi and 'getting stoned.' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taxi (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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