I know how you feel. I've got a CeeCee in my past from about the same time. I miss her and the simpler life. Before the dark times. Before the Empire....
Got married in 76 to a girl I fell in love with at first sight in 73 but we lost our way and divorced in 81. We found each other again and remarried in 2011, we both knew we were making a mistake in 81 but sometimes things happen or said and you can't or don't change it. We were looking forward to happily ever after and a story book ending until negligence by her Drs cost her her life in 2021, I'm still and always will be heartbroken but wouldn't trade those last few years we had together for any amount of money. Harry's songs or rather stories seem to hit home with so many, this an Taxi both do that for me. As do many of his other songs...
@@harleyrider9709 You wrote the words that I was going to write!! It was just that one time that I saw him after 7 crazy years of going nowhere. After all of the years gone by my heart nearly leaped from my chest and those fluttering butterflies in my stomach.
I had the privilege of meeting Harry in person twice. The first, I was the greeter when he performed at my college. He got lost in the fog in the Petersburg Pass. He was hilarious when he finally arrived. The second was at a benefit concert, that he did yearly, in Rutland, VT for the Wildwood School (a school for children with special needs). He performed with a couple of band members including his brother. He was right on the gym floor with adoring fans inches from his feet. Of course we all sang the "Circle" song when he ended. Afterword he hung around and talked to people. I said hello and that I greeted him at North Adams State College. He started laughing telling me that he remembered me and that trip totally sucked! But playing makes it all go away. Such a normal, caring guy. His death was a punch to my heart.
I am amazed to find out after all these years he wrote a sequel.... but he did it.. .He knew he had to....... Everyone wanted to know what happened..... God Bless you Harry.... Rest in peace..... Your songs will still keep playing for a new generation to hear.... Mike in LA, Calif...
The story behind the making of sequal is fans use to come to him all the time and ask him questions like What every happened to Sue or y=You have to update the story or You have to write a sequal. SOme where between all of this he decided to not only write a sequal but his last album which he recorded and released , yes I know there was one released after his death after, was called Sequal. I have it its a great album.
I found it I think the album was called the gold medal album a presidential awards that was given to Harry Chapin but I can't find the album. I think it was around 1985 when I found it
Same....Im very well versed in Taxi, as I was a kid when it was a hit, and it really pulls at the strings....But this sequal, completely oblivious until today
No, I read that Harry Chapin was going to write a second sequel, to explain what happened to the people, but was killed in a traffic accident before he could do so. Tragic.
@@kennethjacobus6541 The title song "Sequel" reports further events in the lives of Harry and Sue, the characters in Chapin's hit song "Taxi" from Wikipedia
Just now I heard this. I too wasn't aware of it. Fantastic ballad, Sequel. The song "Taxi" hit just as I was 19, reaching the decision to leave and work my way through college. My GF leaving, headed to another college. She was my inspiration, a successful vet's daughter. Some forty-five years ago now, "Taxi" influenced by decision to go fly.
I was a teenager when I first listened to Harry Chapin and loved all his awesome tunes. It's 2021 now and I still love listening to this music. Sad that he never got the chance to make more of this great stuff!
Heard the original song in the early 2000's from a CD, and discovering this this was such a nice surprise I wouldn't have gotten without the internet I'm pretty sure. Such a beautiful ending to a story told by an incredible artist
Harry taught masterclass song writing with every tune he wrote and sang. Harry, Jim Croce, John Denver all in the same category and all gone way too soon.
Stunned that Harry fans don't know about this track. But it's easy to miss things, I know I have with some of my favorite artists. Glad, in any case, that everyone got here eventually. Harry was unique and he touched all of us to our very souls.
Harry's honesty comes through here. Honesty about how painful life can be when love doesn't quite work out. We all go through lonely times and sometimes, well quite often, we can't really reach what we really want in life, in relationships especially.
I went looking for someone special that was in my life , she belonged to someone else , at the time ,years before she had done me many favours . When I found her , I was left with a memory , she had died years before.I cried for days , I never did thank her .
This song his wife wrote as a poem, and finally he said can I see that poem you wrote, mixed something up and came out with this Wonderful song, and a second part. For years I was pissed thinking why didn't he say what happen, and then found it later what a gift it was to me... .
A story: I have listened to and adored Harry Chapin my whole life. I borrowed my dad's Greatest Stories CDs as a child, and listened to them ad infinitum. My favourite was Taxi. I'm 34 now, and sought out some old vinyl at a local shop. I was listening to new Chapin songs for the first time in my life, and was absorbed. When Sequel started, I was confused at first. Taxi wasn't on this album. Then the realisation of what this song was hit me like a sledgehammer. Finding this song decade's later, a sequel that I didn't know existed to a story I completely adored, felt like the most incredible gift. I cannot adequately describe how emotional this song makes me.
I'm so jealous of all the people posting who just now had that amazing feeling of realizing there was a sequel. I remember when I figured it out, its the small things in life. :) .... r.i.p Harry.
Yeah I found out about the sequel maybe a month or two ago. I was in about 18 when the original song came out. It’s a good song and answers some questions that people would ask him.
Great song Harry. I dated a lady when this song was out. This song reminds me of our time together. She moved on just like in this song. ................Harry, You left us too damn soon. Rest in peace
I’ve lived my life, I don’t know if the lyrics mapped out the life or if the life I lived fit the lyrics of so many songs. This was one of them. I worked as a taxi driver for a year or so and not to many years later I moved from Ohio to Northern California to go to professional pilot school. But, I waited to long to try and reconnect with my Sue. Cancer took her young.Her name was Tina, I truly and completely believe we are soulmates and we have been together in sooo many different lifetimes and we will find each other again in the next. Discovering passionate love as a teen but instead of a chance meeting years later, we will meet and we will both swear we have already met. Then we realize it was in another life time, not another location.
Great song. Both the original and Sequel. Sue has moved on and grown up. Harry is still dreaming. He learns not to live in the past and tells us 3 things that are nobody’s business. And now he’s taken the answer to all three to his grave. Rest in peace, Harry. You’re flying high in Heaven now!
Wow, I just found out there was a sequel..I had no idea..so had to come here to hear it. Taxi was such a "real" story and I think myself as well as others always wondered if there would be a sequel. This was bittersweet. RIP Harry and thanks for your stories
I never heard there was a sequel. I'm glad I found this. Great thing that they both found their happiness., even though they're still not together, but hey. "only time will tell". There probably would have been a part 3, but poor Harry didn't get to write it. They may have gotten together.
been listening to this song my whole life, my dad introduced me to harry's music when i was 4, 27 now and still listen to him all the time. so underrated. keep the change
Many of the songs mirror experiences I have had or my dad had like the encyclopedia sales man and the guitar. Happened when I was a kid. We got rid of Miss hit lure..
A long time ago I knew a girl who I thought was the most beautiful woman in the world. Blonde hair, hazel green eyes and a smile that would make any star at night blush. She was everything to me and she was everything above me. I tried so hard for her to like me. I was scared that if I couldnt change my life around, I would lose her. I went back to school and studied hard just to improve my marks for College and in the midst of trying...I lost her. Several years ago I found out that she was married and very successful. I love this song with all my heart because it puts me back to her and that place I told her I loved her and I always will cherish that day, but at the same time, I hate this song as I had to see her walk away. Almost 40 years have past and I still love. You are the best and always will be...
wow, I remembered the original and ask these years never realized there was a sequel. I was dreaming this adding this morning, except I was living it...strange dream. I'm LOVING this sequel, a happy ending after all. Dreams do come true. Merry Christmas everyone, May the joy of this season carry into the New Year for you.
I don’t mind bragging but I know “Taxi” by heart. Been listening to Harry for years and years. His songs are so visual. “A Better place to be” is another favorite.
Some years ago I reconnected with a few select people from my past. I can identify with this song...I found some closure. Liked that. Only time will tell.
Never knew he'd written a sequel to Taxi's story till now. IMO there was no need, but I'm glad he did it to make it an epilogue to Taxi, and at least now we know what happened to Harry and Sue.
This song has really grown on me over the years...and now, I can't help feeling that he knew this was the middle chapter of the saga... ...shame we'll never hear the final act.
I did get to listen to his daughter play……in Evansville Indiana….about 5-6 years ago at a house party…..she is so talented and she told us the story that her dad never drove a taxi….her brother had a lot of odd jobs and he did drive a taxi, but never her dad
I remember the day Harry went away. I was sick about it then. I still miss Harry. Where have you gone Harry? When are comin by this way again? My earballs are sad without you.
I still remember driving on the LIE trying to get home so I could go see Harry At Eisenhower Park I was very excited for the show as i past a terrible accident my excitement turned to sadness for the person in the car not knowing who it was at the time only to find out their would be no concert that night
I think his last line was interesting... 'only time will tell' almost like the sequel was going to have a postscript but he never got that chance... such a talent, such a story teller.
Mike - You are right. I read that there was supposed to be a third song, but Harry Chain he was killed in the motor vehicle accident before he could write it.
I was a teenager when this song was released. It's not as good as "Taxi" but the original deserved a conclusion. We always want people to "land on their feet." It's nice to know how the story ended.
Maybe he is right sometimes it's better when we don't touch our dreams.Because in our heads they turn out as we want but in real life there are other factors. To many to list.
This is a song of love and Redemption it doesn't seem like something that we should mention we drive along on this road called life it's filled with love it's filled with strife we try to reconcile the difference between what we want and what are dreams it's hard to discern between them at times they don't always follow between the lines it's here I will end some may say I'm wondering on but I hope my Rhymes will help someone to carry on. I'm Bob you haven't heard the Last of Me. tell me what you think was it worth it or do I stink.
Teresa Torres So true about dreams not being up to expectations. When you are young you have a simple idea of what you can accomplish. When we grow up we realise all the selfishness and other rot that's out there. I guess that is why they call them dreams.
@Teresa Torres: Sometimes, we have to learn to love and let go; one of life's most painful lessons.. I like the the line; "What might've been.." And, "Just as well.."
Harry Chapin I remember this song from way back and always liked it, because it is Philosophical and true to life. Funny when I first heard this song I was dating a lady named Sue.
RETURNED ONCE MORE FOR THE SEQUEL. ONLY HARRY CHAPIN BRIDGED TIME & SPACE THROUGH HIS MUSICAL STORIES. " THERE'V BEEN TOO MANY MILES & TOO MANY SMILES, BUT "I STILL REMEMBER YOU". "THERE'S A WILD MAN WIZARD HIDING IN ME, DRIVING A PRINCESS BLIND"." BABY'S SO HIGH THAT SHE'S SKYING, SO HIGH, SHE'S AFRAID TO FALL, I'LL TELL U WHY BABY'S CRYIN', CAUSE SHE'S DYIN"., AREN'T WE ALL". LOVE & LOSS THRU HARRY CHAPIN'S WORDS & MUSIC. " TAKIN' TIPS & GETTIN" STONED. I GO FLYIN' SO HIGH WHEN I'M STONED".R.I.P.
Yeah, life we don't often do it right. We have our dreams, wishes, desires. Some never come true. What we want and what becomes often, not anything like that start.
I heard Taxi for the first time on my radio while driving a Yellow Cab. I loved it. Things have changed a lot for me since then, but I still love Harry Chapin's music. - all of it.
I met a real life "Sue". I was fortunate enough to get to go to a Halloween party in an expensive area of town. She was the hostess, was dressed appropriately for the party, and seemed happy. It was quite a lavish event. Some time later she and her husband had divorced and she was living in an apartment in a lower class area. I saw her a few times at art and wine festivals. She seemed pleased with her new lifestyle and not missing being surrounded by wealth. I always wondered if she married her husband for his wealth and then found that his money didn't bring happiness. She was very attractive and he may have married her for her body. I know that she was a heavy drinker and died relatively young. I really feel that "Sequel" has a stronger impact than "Taxi", but, if there hadn't been "Taxi", there would never have been "Sequel". I don't recall hearing "Sequel" on the radio but it did slightly better than "Taxi" on the Billboard charts.
I Also Didnt Remember About the Sequel, It refers To Life In general & How it Some What Bitterly Plays out! WE Can Chase Our Dreams But Dreams Arent tangible To Actually "Catch"! Thinking, Planning, Doing Some times is Just a Futility Excercise In Time Passage Of Which we FEEL Driven To do Even If We Intuitively Know the Futility Of It yet Gamble Any-Way , "Just In case" Our Dream Itself can Catch the Elusive Dream Of Reality! "Sequel" here-in makes Us want a part 3 . This tempo Was a Bit faster Changing The Dynamic of the Story-Telling ! RIP Harry!!!
![Taxi/Sequel - Harry Chapin [Complete Extended Remix Audio]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uS-e3K9h6S4/mqdefault.jpg)
It's 2022 and I remember first hearing Taxi in 1972. I was 20 years old then and now I'm 70 and happy to say I'm still here.😊
My story as you. When 50 years later, we hear the ending of this early story…. It was wonderful! Ty
Me too!
Me too
Me too. Same age.
Me too. My X and I, saw Harry not long before he was killed in the traffic accident. I’m now 70 and still love his songs.
These two songs bring back so many memories, Mary , from 44 years ago. I still miss her
I know how you feel. I've got a CeeCee in my past from about the same time. I miss her and the simpler life. Before the dark times. Before the Empire....
Got married in 76 to a girl I fell in love with at first sight in 73 but we lost our way and divorced in 81. We found each other again and remarried in 2011, we both knew we were making a mistake in 81 but sometimes things happen or said and you can't or don't change it. We were looking forward to happily ever after and a story book ending until negligence by her Drs cost her her life in 2021, I'm still and always will be heartbroken but wouldn't trade those last few years we had together for any amount of money. Harry's songs or rather stories seem to hit home with so many, this an Taxi both do that for me. As do many of his other songs...
Did you sue those sorry ass doctors? & I'm so sorry for your loss 👍✌️
Thanks for sharing
Harry hit the nail on the head. Running into old friends and/or lovers can be so bitter-sweet. He expressed it both ways very eloquently.
You're so right to say that. Been there several times. It never seems to be the same happiness.
@@harleyrider9709 You wrote the words that I was going to write!! It was just that one time that I saw him after 7 crazy years of going nowhere. After all of the years gone by my heart nearly leaped from my chest and those fluttering butterflies in my stomach.
Taxi. Sequel. Type of songs you Remember EXACTLY at what part of life you were experiencing!
Tragic to lose his talent so soon.
RIP Harry🙏
"With half the time thinking of what might have been, and half thinking "just as well"". I think we all have a story like that in our lives.....
Or more than one.
The names haven't been changed to protect the innocent
Nobody is
Oh you got that right
I know I do 😭😭😭
🙏
I had the privilege of meeting Harry in person twice. The first, I was the greeter when he performed at my college. He got lost in the fog in the Petersburg Pass. He was hilarious when he finally arrived. The second was at a benefit concert, that he did yearly, in Rutland, VT for the Wildwood School (a school for children with special needs). He performed with a couple of band members including his brother. He was right on the gym floor with adoring fans inches from his feet. Of course we all sang the "Circle" song when he ended. Afterword he hung around and talked to people. I said hello and that I greeted him at North Adams State College. He started laughing telling me that he remembered me and that trip totally sucked! But playing makes it all go away. Such a normal, caring guy. His death was a punch to my heart.
Probably the best story teller of our time.
I am amazed to find out after all these years he wrote a sequel.... but he did it.. .He knew he had to....... Everyone wanted to know what happened..... God Bless you Harry.... Rest in peace..... Your songs will still keep playing for a new generation to hear.... Mike in LA, Calif...
The story behind the making of sequal is fans use to come to him all the time and ask him questions like What every happened to Sue or y=You have to update the story or You have to write a sequal. SOme where between all of this he decided to not only write a sequal but his last album which he recorded and released , yes I know there was one released after his death after, was called Sequal. I have it its a great album.
I found it I think the album was called the gold medal album a presidential awards that was given to Harry Chapin but I can't find the album. I think it was around 1985 when I found it
UNICOMP
You do know he played them both back to back. th-cam.com/video/aeMX1JfqKuc/w-d-xo.html
My dad raised me on his music, he never played Taxi without playing Sequel but we were discussing not long ago how few people do know he did this one.
I'm 56 years old. It brought a tear to my eyes. Why have I never heard this song before?
1970's..........Alot of people played musical instruments. Today, not that many.
You don't kmim 59 and divorce after 34 years
Met a girl in Memphis tn ,she's addicted, I love ❤️ her
I worry about her all the time
Same....Im very well versed in Taxi, as I was a kid when it was a hit, and it really pulls at the strings....But this sequal, completely oblivious until today
How ten years could change two lives. I never knew he recorded a sequel. I loved hearing it for the first time!
I am happy you finally heard the Sequel. At last, I am certain that Harry would have wished it were true, for it was the closure he so desired.
Same here
No, I read that Harry Chapin was going to write a second sequel, to explain what happened to the people, but was killed in a traffic accident before he could do so. Tragic.
@@kennethjacobus6541 The title song "Sequel" reports further events in the lives of Harry and Sue, the characters in Chapin's hit song "Taxi" from Wikipedia
Just now I heard this. I too wasn't aware of it. Fantastic ballad, Sequel.
The song "Taxi" hit just as I was 19, reaching the decision to leave and work my way through college. My GF leaving, headed to another college. She was my inspiration, a successful vet's daughter. Some forty-five years ago now, "Taxi" influenced by decision to go fly.
STUNNING! This what music SHOULD be. Rest well, good Sir.
I was a teenager when I first listened to Harry Chapin and loved all his awesome tunes. It's 2021 now and I still love listening to this music. Sad that he never got the chance to make more of this great stuff!
Bananas 🎉
Heard the original song in the early 2000's from a CD, and discovering this this was such a nice surprise I wouldn't have gotten without the internet I'm pretty sure. Such a beautiful ending to a story told by an incredible artist
Harry taught masterclass song writing with every tune he wrote and sang. Harry, Jim Croce, John Denver all in the same category and all gone way too soon.
AMEN
Stunned that Harry fans don't know about this track. But it's easy to miss things, I know I have with some of my favorite artists. Glad, in any case, that everyone got here eventually. Harry was unique and he touched all of us to our very souls.
"I watched her corners start to bend" gets me every time. "At last I like myself."
Kinda reminds me of "Same Auld Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg. One of my favorite sad holiday songs. Love that song!
Only a beautiful song this man can produce❤😂✌️😎🖌️.
ive just heard the sequel for the first time and it made me cry just so beautiful. it definitley completed taxi.
I love Harry Chapin's music. His songs were the best story tellers ever!
Harry's honesty comes through here. Honesty about how painful life can be when love doesn't quite work out. We all go through lonely times and sometimes, well quite often, we can't really reach what we really want in life, in relationships especially.
I went looking for someone special that was in my life , she belonged to someone else , at the time ,years before she had done me many favours . When I found her , I was left with a memory , she had died years before.I cried for days , I never did thank her .
@@Jay-vr9ir Sorry for your loss. Please be happy and grateful that your paths crossed and be thankful for the good memories. God bless you.
This song his wife wrote as a poem, and finally he said can I see that poem you wrote, mixed something up and came out with this Wonderful song, and a second part. For years I was pissed thinking why didn't he say what happen, and then found it later what a gift it was to me...
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@@Jay-vr9ir she knew you came looking for her, she was there you just didn’t see her.
@@Harley57 Thank you it kind of puts me a little in mind of the movie Noon til three.
A story:
I have listened to and adored Harry Chapin my whole life. I borrowed my dad's Greatest Stories CDs as a child, and listened to them ad infinitum. My favourite was Taxi.
I'm 34 now, and sought out some old vinyl at a local shop. I was listening to new Chapin songs for the first time in my life, and was absorbed. When Sequel started, I was confused at first. Taxi wasn't on this album.
Then the realisation of what this song was hit me like a sledgehammer. Finding this song decade's later, a sequel that I didn't know existed to a story I completely adored, felt like the most incredible gift. I cannot adequately describe how emotional this song makes me.
Similar story here. Also decades of ignorance of the song and the same sledgehammer feeling.
Great song, I can really relate to "half the time thinking of what might have been." He was taken from us far too early.
when he passed the world lost a good man.His daughter has worked very hard on his hunger projects woderful family
His whole family and friends are keeping his songs and dreams alive.
Have always loved both of these songs Sequel just makes it complete
+jack flashMaybe it's just as well.
His music will always be a part of my life,
Some songs just stay with you, Harry had a few like that
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I thought there was more to come.
We saw Harry in concert @ indiana state univ years ago…songs and depth of music still cause emotional connection. Best to his family🚕
I can imagine the audience giving him thunderous applause at end of this song!!!
I'm so glad he wrote a happy/ promising sequel. I wanted them to have a happy ending ('At last I like myself' ).
I'm so jealous of all the people posting who just now had that amazing feeling of realizing there was a sequel. I remember when I figured it out, its the small things in life. :) .... r.i.p Harry.
Had no idea. Great to listen to
I have to listen to this at least once a year 😁 If a month is a year 😂
@@njaneardude lol. ;)
I understand your jealousy 😄✌️🤘
Yeah I found out about the sequel maybe a month or two ago. I was in about 18 when the original song came out. It’s a good song and answers some questions that people would ask him.
Great song Harry. I dated a lady when this song was out. This song reminds me of our time together. She moved on just like in this song. ................Harry, You left us too damn soon. Rest in peace
I learned of this today after watching a reaction to Taxi. All these years, I never knew.
I’ve lived my life, I don’t know if the lyrics mapped out the life or if the life I lived fit the lyrics of so many songs. This was one of them. I worked as a taxi driver for a year or so and not to many years later I moved from Ohio to Northern California to go to professional pilot school.
But, I waited to long to try and reconnect with my Sue. Cancer took her young.Her name was Tina, I truly and completely believe we are soulmates and we have been together in sooo many different lifetimes and we will find each other again in the next.
Discovering passionate love as a teen but instead of a chance meeting years later, we will meet and we will both swear we have already met. Then we realize it was in another life time, not another location.
Thanks for sharing
A fine song to finish the story of an even more classic song. Thank you for the sharing.
Great song. Both the original and Sequel.
Sue has moved on and grown up. Harry is still dreaming. He learns not to live in the past and tells us 3 things that are nobody’s business. And now he’s taken the answer to all three to his grave. Rest in peace, Harry. You’re flying high in Heaven now!
Wow, I just found out there was a sequel..I had no idea..so had to come here to hear it. Taxi was such a "real" story and I think myself as well as others always wondered if there would be a sequel. This was bittersweet.
RIP Harry and thanks for your stories
I never heard there was a sequel. I'm glad I found this. Great thing that they both found their happiness., even though they're still not together, but hey. "only time will tell". There probably would have been a part 3, but poor Harry didn't get to write it. They may have gotten together.
It really does not, at all, seem she had found any sort of true happiness or success. Tragic shit. Just like my life.
Nov 2022 and crying. Sat close to him singing in the 70's.
been listening to this song my whole life, my dad introduced me to harry's music when i was 4, 27 now and still listen to him all the time. so underrated. keep the change
I'm 35 and my dad raised me on his music. So much so, his song Tangled Up Puppet was our father daughter dance at my wedding.
@@GravesLilDarkAngel Love reading this!! Thank you ❣️
Many of the songs mirror experiences I have had or my dad had like the encyclopedia sales man and the guitar. Happened when I was a kid. We got rid of Miss hit lure..
@@GravesLilDarkAngel Sweet!
I attended many live concerts, shook his hand, he autographed an album cover, then passed soon after. GREATEST STORIES LIVE!
I don't listen to Harry as much as I used to,
But when I do so do my neighbors!
Lol, with the windows open, and cranked vol.
same here bore nothing less
A long time ago I knew a girl who I thought was the most beautiful woman in the world. Blonde hair, hazel green eyes and a smile that would make any star at night blush. She was everything to me and she was everything above me. I tried so hard for her to like me. I was scared that if I couldnt change my life around, I would lose her. I went back to school and studied hard just to improve my marks for College and in the midst of trying...I lost her. Several years ago I found out that she was married and very successful. I love this song with all my heart because it puts me back to her and that place I told her I loved her and I always will cherish that day, but at the same time, I hate this song as I had to see her walk away. Almost 40 years have past and I still love. You are the best and always will be...
Always a favorite singer and story teller.
wow, I remembered the original and ask these years never realized there was a sequel. I was dreaming this adding this morning, except I was living it...strange dream.
I'm LOVING this sequel, a happy ending after all. Dreams do come true.
Merry Christmas everyone, May the joy of this season carry into the New Year for you.
I don’t mind bragging but I know “Taxi” by heart. Been listening to Harry for years and years. His songs are so visual. “A Better place to be” is another favorite.
It's such a classic song with a great story. I have recently revisited both Taxi and the sequel. Brings back memories from a time long gone.
I've never heard this before. It's long overdue.
Saw him live performing his music in Germany at a small Air Force venue. Spent a few minutes chatting, wow, he was so down to earth!
Some years ago I reconnected with a few select people from my past. I can identify with this song...I found some closure. Liked that. Only time will tell.
Never knew he'd written a sequel to Taxi's story till now. IMO there was no need, but I'm glad he did it to make it an epilogue to Taxi, and at least now we know what happened to Harry and Sue.
He was taken away from us too soon. I love the singer/song writers and story tellers.
The first part was about selling out and broken dreams-the second was about fulfilment and authenticity.
What a masterpiece. Brilliant!
This song has really grown on me over the years...and now, I can't help feeling that he knew this was the middle chapter of the saga...
...shame we'll never hear the final act.
Happy belated 74th Birthday Harry 12/7/16,from Dayton Ohio
Harry hit #23 in Billboard, 12-13-80. God bless ya, SongsofHarry, for postin' it. Thanx! Have a blessed week! RIP, Harry.
What a beautiful story teller,teacher ❤
One of the best We ever had/R.I.P. Harry.
I did get to listen to his daughter play……in Evansville Indiana….about 5-6 years ago at a house party…..she is so talented and she told us the story that her dad never drove a taxi….her brother had a lot of odd jobs and he did drive a taxi, but never her dad
I remember the day Harry went away. I was sick about it then. I still miss Harry. Where have you gone Harry? When are comin by this way again? My earballs are sad without you.
‘I finally like myself’ so powerful!
I still remember driving on the LIE trying to get home so I could go see Harry At Eisenhower Park I was very excited for the show as i past a terrible accident my excitement turned to sadness for the person in the car not knowing who it was at the time only to find out their would be no concert that night
Jimmy Monroe, I’m so sorry. I was 19 and so very excited to be seeing him the next night, but that did not happen. So sad. Such a loss to us all.
Sad very sad. Harry was the greatest.
Wow. :(
I heard that it was at exit 39 of the Long Island expressway?
Over 36 years I've loved "Taxi". Had no idea this existed. Amazing. Thank you.
Me too. I only discovered it 2 years ago.
The sequel everyone waited for
I just listened to Taxi..then this song came up next..I have never heard this song untill now.. OMFG.. WHY HAVE I ONLY FOUND IT NOW..
I think his last line was interesting... 'only time will tell' almost like the sequel was going to have a postscript but he never got that chance... such a talent, such a story teller.
Mike - You are right. I read that there was supposed to be a third song, but Harry Chain he was killed in the motor vehicle accident before he could write it.
Definitely one of the best storytellers Bob Dylan Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin
I was a teenager when this song was released. It's not as good as "Taxi" but the original deserved a conclusion. We always want people to "land on their feet." It's nice to know how the story ended.
exactly
Man, you can't have Taxi with out this one. I think both are as equally deserving.
Very true.
@@GravesLilDarkAngel This song is the perfect closure to Taxi.
@@rockvilleraven it's the story come full circle.
Wonderful Harry Chapen.
Maybe he is right sometimes it's better when we don't touch our dreams.Because in our heads they turn out as we want but in real life there are other factors. To many to list.
This is a song of love and Redemption it doesn't seem like something that we should mention we drive along on this road called life it's filled with love it's filled with strife we try to reconcile the difference between what we want and what are dreams it's hard to discern between them at times they don't always follow between the lines it's here I will end some may say I'm wondering on but I hope my Rhymes will help someone to carry on. I'm Bob you haven't heard the Last of Me. tell me what you think was it worth it or do I stink.
Teresa Torres So true about dreams not being up to expectations. When you are young you have a simple idea of what you can accomplish. When we grow up we realise all the selfishness and other rot that's out there. I guess that is why they call them dreams.
@Teresa Torres:
Sometimes, we have to learn to love and let go;
one of life's most painful lessons..
I like the the line; "What might've been.."
And, "Just as well.."
@@carle.parran4082 Dreams remind us of what we might’ve been
@@carle.parran4082 letting go of love is tough. But necessary
Unfortunately
Harry Chapin I remember this song from way back and always liked it, because it is Philosophical and true to life. Funny when I first heard this song I was dating a lady named Sue.
Heard this once before, on a jukebox, a lifetime ago it seems...just as well.
wonderful,wonderful, wonderful...!!!
I first heard Taxi at 19...now it hits different at 50...never heard the sequel before, tho.
I like this sequel but as a visual artist i find that taxi is on the most prolific songs of my lifetime.
I'm happy there's a sequel and there is a happy ending to Taxi (or at least a continuation).
RETURNED ONCE MORE FOR THE SEQUEL. ONLY HARRY CHAPIN BRIDGED TIME & SPACE THROUGH HIS MUSICAL STORIES. " THERE'V BEEN TOO MANY MILES & TOO MANY SMILES, BUT "I STILL REMEMBER YOU". "THERE'S A WILD MAN WIZARD HIDING IN ME, DRIVING A PRINCESS BLIND"." BABY'S SO HIGH THAT SHE'S SKYING, SO HIGH, SHE'S AFRAID TO FALL, I'LL TELL U WHY BABY'S CRYIN', CAUSE SHE'S DYIN"., AREN'T WE ALL". LOVE & LOSS THRU HARRY CHAPIN'S WORDS & MUSIC. " TAKIN' TIPS & GETTIN" STONED. I GO FLYIN' SO HIGH WHEN I'M STONED".R.I.P.
always a fan and always will be
Harry will always in my top favourite singer, songwriters memories
Mine too
I love Taxi and this and I love him and I wonder what he would have done if he lived longer
INDUCT HARRY CHAPIN
Definitely !!!
yes...
He is definitely deserving of a spot in the Hall of Fame.
YES
He was such a great man.
It's the fitting sequel to the story. They don't do songwriters that tell a story so complete now days.
Yeah, life we don't often do it right. We have our dreams, wishes, desires. Some never come true. What we want and what becomes often, not anything like that start.
Great great , sequel.
Amazing
I saw harry a million years ago at the troubadour in LA with two friends he was the opener for Carly Simon he was amazing
I can feel what he said in this song. Been there done that. R.I.P Harry from a cabbie.
Wow, God bless you, brother.
I heard Taxi for the first time on my radio while driving a Yellow Cab. I loved it. Things have changed a lot for me since then, but I still love Harry Chapin's music. - all of it.
I met a real life "Sue". I was fortunate enough to get to go to a Halloween party in an expensive area of town. She was the hostess, was dressed appropriately for the party, and seemed happy. It was quite a lavish event. Some time later she and her husband had divorced and she was living in an apartment in a lower class area. I saw her a few times at art and wine festivals. She seemed pleased with her new lifestyle and not missing being surrounded by wealth. I always wondered if she married her husband for his wealth and then found that his money didn't bring happiness. She was very attractive and he may have married her for her body. I know that she was a heavy drinker and died relatively young.
I really feel that "Sequel" has a stronger impact than "Taxi", but, if there hadn't been "Taxi", there would never have been "Sequel". I don't recall hearing "Sequel" on the radio but it did slightly better than "Taxi" on the Billboard charts.
Was she dressed as a vampire at the party?🧛♀
Gorgeous
He died way too early. God bless you Harry.
Shame we were never to hear proceeding update in '88, '96, 04, '12 and soon anticipated 48th anniversary in 2020
love this
Excellent song looking back
When you cant touch your dreams. ...wow..
Ladyinred2751.....I would have liked to have had the chance to at least "touch" one......
"I
t's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams."
Of all the singers to have gone too soon, Chapin and Lennon make me the saddest.
40+ years later... I love
I wish he had followed up with a prequel
I Also Didnt Remember About the Sequel, It refers To Life In general & How it Some What Bitterly Plays out! WE Can Chase Our Dreams But Dreams Arent tangible To Actually "Catch"! Thinking, Planning, Doing Some times is Just a Futility Excercise In Time Passage Of Which we FEEL Driven To do Even If We Intuitively Know the Futility Of It yet Gamble Any-Way , "Just In case" Our Dream Itself can Catch the Elusive Dream Of Reality! "Sequel" here-in makes Us want a part 3 . This tempo Was a Bit faster Changing The Dynamic of the Story-Telling ! RIP Harry!!!
Excellent sequel
I was lucky to see Harry a few months before he passed.
Yes, you were.