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Joni Mitchell - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Lyrics

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  • Words by joni mitchell
  • Music by charles mingus
  • When charlie speaks of lester
  • You know someone great has gone
  • The sweetest swinging music man
  • Had a porkie pig hat on
  • A bright star
  • In a dark age
  • When the bandstands had a thousand ways
  • Of refusing a black man admission
  • Black musician
  • In those days they put him in an
  • Underdog position
  • Cellars and chittlins
  • When lester took him a wife
  • Arm and arm went black and white
  • And some saw red
  • And drove them from their hotel bed
  • Love is never easy
  • Its short of the hope we have for happiness
  • Bright and sweet
  • Love is never easy street!
  • Now we are black and white
  • Embracing out in the lunatic new york night
  • Its very unlikely well be driven out of town
  • Or be hung in a tree
  • Thats unlikely!
  • Tonight these crowds
  • Are happy and loud
  • Children are up dancing in the streets
  • In the sticky middle of the night
  • Summer serenade
  • Of taxi horns and fun arcades
  • Where right or wrong
  • Under neon
  • Every feeling goes on!
  • For you and me
  • The sidewalk is a history book
  • And a circus
  • Dangerous clowns
  • Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions
  • They have been handed
  • Day by day
  • Generations on down
  • We came up from the subway
  • On the music midnight makes
  • To charlies bass and lesters saxophone
  • In taxi horns and brakes
  • Now charlies down in mexico
  • With the healers
  • So the sidewalk leads us with music
  • To two little dancers
  • Dancing outside a black bar
  • Theres a sign up on the awning
  • It says pork pie hat bar
  • And theres black babies dancing...
  • Tonight!

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