Chords for Joni Mitchell - Song For Sharon (Live London 1983)

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_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [A] I went to Staten Island, Sharon, to buy [D] myself a mandolin
[C] And [D] _ _ _ I [G] saw the long white dress of love on [D] her storefront _
Big _ _ _ [G] _ [Cm] _ [Gm] bold [Fm] chugging back with a belly [F] full of cars
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All for [F] something lacy
_ _ Some [G] girl's gonna see that dress and crave that day [D] like crazy _
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_ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ Little Indian kids [A] on a bridge up in Canada
They can [D] balance, they can [C] climb
[D] Like _ _ [G] _ their fathers before them
They'll walk the [D] girders of the Manhattan _ skyline
_ _ _ [Cm] Shine your [F] light on me, Miss Liberty
_ Cause as [Cm] soon [F] as this ferry boat [Dm] docks
[G] Then head into the church to play bingo
Please [D] me with a gambler's _ [Am] box
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_ [D] _ [Am] I [A] can keep my cool at poker but I'm a fool [D] _ [Am] in love [D] that's thick
[C] _ _ Cause I can't [G] conceal emotion while I'm feeling's [D] always on my [Am] face _
_ [D] _ [Am] _ [Cm] _ There's a gypsy [F] down on Blinker [Dm] Street
_ [Cm] I went in to see her [F] as a kind of joke
[Dm] She _ lit a [G] candle for my love luck and 18 bucks [D] when I'm in smoke _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ Sharon, I left my [A] man at a North Dakota [D] junction
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[D] And _ [C] _ _ [F] I came out to the Big [G] Apple here to face [D] the dream's malfunction
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_ [D] _ [C] _ _ [Cm] _ _ Love's a [F] repetitious danger
[Cm] _ You'd think [F] I'd be accustomed to
[Dm] _ Well I do, [G] except the change is better than [D] I used to do
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_ [D] A _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ woman I knew [A] just drowned herself, the well was [D] deep and muddy
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_ [D] [Am] She [F] _ was just shaking off [G] futility or _ punishing [D] [C] somebody _
[D] Friends [C] _ [Cm] _ called her up all day [F] yesterday
_ _ [Eb] _ All emotions and [F] _ abstractions
Since [Dm] we all live so close to that [G] line and so far [D] from [Em] satisfaction _
[D] _ [C] Dora [D] _ _ says have [A] children, Mama and Betsy [D] say [Am] find a charity
[D] _ _ [Am] Help [F] _ the needy [G] and the crippled or put some [D] time into equality
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_ [D] _ _ [Cm] _ Well there's a wide [F] wide world of noble [Cm] causes
And lovely [F] landscapes to discover but
_ All I really want [G] to do is find [D] another [E] lover
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_ [D] _ [Am] When [Em] we were [A] kids in Maidstone Sharon I went [D] to every wedding in the town _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ To [G] see the tears and the kisses and the [D] pretty lady in the white lace gown
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_ _ [D] _ _ [Cm] _ Walking home on [F] the railroad tracks _ [Cm] or swinging on the [F] playground swing
[A] Love _ _ [G]
stimulated my illusions [D] more than anything _ _
[C] [D] And _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ [Am] _ [Em] _ when I went skating after [A] Golden Reggie that was white [D] lace
I [Am] was chasing, [D] _ [C] chasing [F] _ _ _
[G] dreams
Mama's nylon's [D] underneath my dress
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_ [D] _ _ [C] _ [Cm] We showed it [F] first, you get the kisses
_ [Eb] Then you have [F] to have the _ tears
[Dm] At the ceremony of the bells and [G] lace
Still veiled [D] the sweat and the school _ [Am]
hair
[D] _ [C] There [A] _ are 29 skaters on Holman Rink
Circling [D] in singles and in [Am] pairs
_ [D] _ [Dm] This _ _ vigorous [G] anonymity, a blank [D] face at the window
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[D] Stares and stares and [Eb] stares
And [Cm] the powers [F] of reason
_ [Cm] And the flowers [F] of deep feelings
Seem to serve me [G] _ only to [D] deceive _ me
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_ [D] _ _ [C] _ [Em] _ Sharon, you [A] got a husband and a family [D] and a farm
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[D] _ I [Am] _ [F] _ got the apple [G] of temptation and a diamond [D] ring [Am] around my [D] arm
But [Cm] _ you still have [F] your music
_ _ [Eb] I've still got my [F] eyes on the land and the sky
Sing for your friends and [G] your family
While walking [D] past goodbye and bye Bye
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