Joni Mitchell

Song For Sharon(Chords)

Joni Mitchell

Key: Dm

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G/A                  A 
    I went to Staten Island, Sharon 
                D       Dsus4  D 
To buy myself a mandolin 
F/G                            G 
      And I saw the long white dress of love 
     D                    Dsus4  D 
On a storefront mannequin 
Eb/F                                F 
      Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars 
Eb/F                    F 
      All for something lacy 
     G7sus4 
Some girl's going to see that dress 
    G7                    D    Dsus4   D 
And   crave that day like crazy 

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G/A                                       A 
     Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada 
                     D               Dsus4  D 
They can balance and they can climb 
F/G                        G 
     Like their fathers be fore them 
                                D         Dsus4    D 
They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline 
Eb/F                              F 
      Shine your light on me Miss Liberty 
Eb/F                         F 
     Because as soon as this ferry boat docks 
    G7sus4 
I'm headed to the church 
        G7 
To play Bingo 
       D                     Dsus4     D 
Fleece me with the gamblers' flocks 


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G/A                       A 
    I can keep my cool at poker 
              D         Dsus4     D 
But I'm a foo ooll when love's at stake 
F/G                           G 
    Because I can't conceal e motion 
                   D                        Dsus4    D 
What I'm feeling's always written on my face 
Eb/F                          F 
      There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street 
Eb/F                           F 
     I went in to see her as a kind of joke 
    G7sus4 
And she lit a candle for my love luck 
     G7          D                    Dsus4  D 
And     eighteen bucks went up in smoke 

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G/A                          A 
      Sharon, I left my man 
              D              Dsus4  D 
At a North Da kota junction 
F/G                                         G 
     And I came out to the 'Big Apple' here 
            D                   Dsus4   D 
To face the dream's malfunction 
Eb/F                F 
      Love's a repe titious danger 
Eb/F                           F 
      You'd think I'd be accus tomed to 
        G7sus4        G7 
Well, I do accept the changes 
         D                         Dsus4 D 
At least better than I used to do 

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G/A                               A 
      A woman I knew just drowned herself 
             D        Dsus4   D 
The well was deep and muddy 
F/G                                    G 
     She was just shaking off futility 
      D                 Dsus4   D 
Or pu nishing somebody 
Eb/F                                 F 
      My friends were calling up all day yesterday 
Eb/F                  F 
     All emotions and abstractions 
            G7sus4                    G7 
It seems we all live so close to that line 
           D                   Dsus4   D 
And so far from satisfaction 

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G/A                              A 
     Dora says, 'Have children!' 
                   D                  Dsus4   D 
Mama and Betsy say,  'Find yourself a charity.' 
F/G                         G                    D         Dsus4  D 
     Help the needy and the crippled or put some time into ecolo  gy.' 
Eb/F                       F 
      Well, there's a wide wide world of noble causes 
Eb/F                  F 
      And lovely land scapes to discover 
G7sus4 
But all I really wanna do right now 
G7            D           Dsus4   D 
Is...find ano ther lover 


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G/A                                   A 
      When we were kids in Maidstone, Sharon 
                        D                   Dsus4   D 
I went to every wedding in that little town 
F/G                   G 
     To see the tears and the kisses 
                           D                       Dsus4   D 
And the pretty lady in the white lace wedding gown 
Eb/F                         F 
     And walking home on the railroad tracks 
Eb/F                          F 
Or swinging on the playground swing 
     G7sus4               G7 
Lo-o-ove stimulated my il lusions 
          D          Dsus4  D 
More than anything 


G/A                                A 
     And when I went skating after Golden Reggie 
                D                       Dsus4   D 
You know it was white lace I was chasing 
        F/G      G 
Chasing dreams 
                            D       Dsus4   D 
Mama's nylons underneath my cowgirl jeans 
Eb/F                        F 
     He showed me first you get the kisses 
Eb/F                      F 
     And then you get the tears 
        G7sus4                         G7 
But the ceremony of the bells and lace 
                          D      Dsus4   D 
Still veils this reckless fool   here 

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G/A                                      A 
    Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink 
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Circling in singles and in pairs 
F/G                  G 
    In this vigorous anonymity 
                    D             Dsus4 
A blank face at the window stares and 
                                 Eb/F 
stares and stares and stares and stares 
                 F 
And the power of reason 
        Eb/F                 F 
And the flowers of deep feel ings 
        G7sus4 
Seem to serve me 
G7              D    Dsus4   D 
Only to deceive me 


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G/A                              A 
     Sharon you've got a husband 
                   D     Dsus4   D 
And a family and a farm 
F/G                            G 
    I've got the apple of temp tation 
              D                  Dsus4  D 
And a diamond snake around my arm 
Eb/F                         F 
     But you still have your music 
Eb/F                            F 
     And I've still got my eyes on the land and the sky 
    G7sus4                               G7 
You sing for your friends and your family 
                    D               Dsus4   D 
I'll walk green pas tures by and by 


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Written by Joni Mitchell

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