{"id":55,"date":"2021-05-10T00:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T00:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=55"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:38:44","slug":"cab-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/cab-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Cab Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/robertandrews.net\/chords\/C\/CH major.jpg\" width=\"86\" height=\"117\" align=\"middle\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-g.jpg\" width=\"57\" height=\"103\" align=\"middle\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/robertandrews.net\/chords\/F\/CH major.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"105\" align=\"middle\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-f.jpg\" width=\"67\" height=\"116\" align=\"middle\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/robertandrews.net\/chords\/G\/CH major.jpg\" width=\"85\" height=\"104\" align=\"middle\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-c.jpg\" width=\"60\" height=\"106\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Key of C :: by C. Carson Parks<br \/>\nBaritone Uke to the Left &#8211; Soprano, Alto and Tenor to the Right<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cab_Driver_(song)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/images\/wiki.jpg\" width=\"50\" \/><\/a> <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea79b3025916011909817' value='69ea79b3025916011909817'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea79b3025916011909817' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea79b3025916011909817' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea79b3025916011909817' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea79b3025916011909817' ><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">&#8220;Cab Driver&#8221; is a song written by Carson Parks and performed by The Mills Brothers featuring Sy Oliver and His Orchestra. It reached #3 on the Easy Listening chart, #21 on the Cashbox chart, and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968. It was featured on their 1968 album Fortuosity.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The song was arranged by Sy Oliver and produced by Charles Randolph Grean and Tom Mack.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The song ranked #86 on Billboard magazine&#8217;s Top 100 singles of 1968.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">\u00a0PICTURED CHORDS SHOWN ARE FOR SOPRANO UKULELE<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Cab driver, drive by Mary&#8217;s [G] place.\u00a0 I just want a chance to see her [C] face.\u00a0 Never mind the meter, let it [F] race.\u00a0 Cab [G] driver, drive by Mary&#8217;s [C] place.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Cab driver, once more &#8217;round the [G] block.\u00a0 Never mind the tickin&#8217; of the [C] clock.\u00a0 I only wish we could have had a [F] talk.\u00a0 Cab [G] driver, once more &#8217;round the [C] block.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-f.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Cab driver, once more down the [G] street.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a little place we used to [C] eat.\u00a0 That&#8217;s where I laid my future at her [F] feet.\u00a0 Cab [G] driver, once more down the [C] street.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Cab driver, wait here by the [G] door.\u00a0 Perhaps I&#8217;ll hold her in my arms once [C] more.\u00a0 Then things will be just like they were [F] before.\u00a0 Cab [G] driver, wait here by the [C] door.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Cab driver, better take me [G] home.\u00a0 I guess that I was meant to be [C] alone.\u00a0 I hope God sends me a loved one of my [F] own.\u00a0 Cab [G] driver, better take me [C] home [F]\u00a0 [C]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Key of C :: by C. Carson Parks Baritone Uke to the Left &#8211; Soprano, Alto and Tenor to the Right \u00a0 \u00a0PICTURED CHORDS SHOWN ARE FOR SOPRANO UKULELE [C] Cab driver, drive by Mary&#8217;s [G] place.\u00a0 I just want a chance to see her [C] face.\u00a0 &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/cab-driver\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cab Driver<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,24,120,133,126,265,13,116,117,123,115,68,98,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-filter","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-name-night","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27544,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/27544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}