Lou Kelly - Catch a Cab Lyrics

Taxi!

Where do ya think you're going?
I'm doing my best in blowing off this roof of this house and off this cab
Scrape off this scab

Billy Boy never gave me a dollar bill
If I had a nickel every time I was a dollar short from buying thrills
I'd pay my bills, cash the till, invest in mob insurance from getting killed

Hey, wonder why I'm running by cars just getting by?
I'm not quite sure myself
Must be spring runners high

My legs are burning
My stomach is churning
Turning into the slovenly beast yearning

For cheap cab fare

Taxi! Taxi! Wait for me
Taxi! Taxi! Where you be?
Don't speed away
Taxi! Taxi!

Taxi! Taxi! Wait for me
Please, I'm begging on my knees
I got somewhere to go so won't you take me, taxi?

Taxi!

Oh, I'm already late
Don't know what I'm gonna do
Got holes in my shoes

Shake off my high
Rub out the fog from my eyes
I stand out in the street
Will I ever meet?
Taxi!

Oh my
Need dead green presidents
To buy myself some common cents
Ask me why I'm a sidewalk resident

Get me outta here!

Taxi! Taxi! Wait for me
Taxi! Taxi! Where you be?
Don't speed away
Taxi! Taxi!

Taxi! Taxi! Wait for me
Please, I'm begging on my knees
I got somewhere to go so won't you take me, taxi?
Take me, taxi!

Wait
Wait
Wait
Please, don't drive away, taxi!