Chords for Joni Mitchell - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

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_ _ [A] When _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [B] Charlie speaks the [E] last time, [Gbm] you know [A] someone great has _ [Gb] gone.
The [B] sweetest winged [B] _ music man [Db] _ [D] had a [Ebm] porky pig hat on.
[Ab] A bright star [B]
in a dark age [F] when the band [Gb] stands.
[Bb] And a thousand [C] ways of [Gbm] refusing [D] a black man [B] _ _ admission.
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Black _ [Ab] _ [A] musician.
_ [A] In those [Bb] days they put [Ebm] him [B] in _ [Ebm] underdog _ position.
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[E] They put him in [Gbm] _ [A] cellars and chitlins.
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[Ebm] _ _ When Lester took him away, [Eb] _ Ivan Arm [Ebm] went black and white.
_ And some saw red and [Bbm] drove them [Eb] from their hotel _ [A] bed. _ _
[Ab] Love _ [Db] is never easy. _
[B] _ It's short of [E] the hope we [Ebm] have for _ [Bbm] happiness.
_ Bright [Eb] and sweet, love [Ab] is never easy [Ebm] street. _
_ [C] Now we [Fm] are black and white embracing out in the [Gb] lunatic New [B] York night.
[Bb] It's very unlikely [Eb] we'll be driven out of town. _ _ _ _ _
Or [Ebm] be hung in [Bm] a tree.
[E] That's unlikely.
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[Cm] These [F] crowds [Bb] _ _ [Ab] _
[F] are happy _ [Bb] _ _ [Db] and [Cm] loud.
_ _ [Bb] _ [Gb] Children are up dancing in [Abm] the streets.
_ _ [F] _ In the sticky middle [B] of the night.
Some [D] _ _ [Gbm] serenade of taxi horns and parties.
[Eb] _ We're right or wrong, under neon.
_ Every [B] fear goes [Bb] on [Gb] for you [C] and [F] me.
The sidewalk is a history book.
[Gb] _ [Dbm] It's a circus.
[B] _ [Bb] Dangerous clouds.
[Eb] _ [Eb] Balancing bread [Db] and wonderful _ [Ab] perceptions.
They have [Db] been handling day [B] by day.
_ Generations [Bb] on down.
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[Db] He _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [B] _
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[Bm] [B] came up from the subway.
_ On the [A] music midnight makes.
[Ab] _ _ Charlie's [Bb] bass and Lester's [Ab] sax.
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[Eb] In taxi horns and brakes.
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[B] Now Charlie _ with _ [Eb] _
the _ [Bb] heelers.
So the sidewalk [C] leads us with [Gb] _ music [F] to _ the [B] dancers.
_ [Db] _ _ [E] _ They're dancing [A] outside this [Gb] crowded black bar.
[Ab] _ _ Don and [B] me we look up and there's [Bb] a sign up on the [Db] awning.
It says, [Gb] Hot [E] guy, [B] hot bar.
_ [E] _ _ And there were [Ab] two _ Christians [A] dancing there.
[Bm] _ _ Two. Two.
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