Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Chords by Joni Mitchell

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_ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ When Charlie [Abm] speaks of luster, [Gb] you know someone [A] great has gone.
[Gb] The _ [B] sweetest swinging music man _ [Db] had a [Ebm] porky pink hat on.
[Bbm] _ [Ab] A [Abm] bright star in a dark age, [F] when the band stood, [Eb] had a thousand ways [Cm] of refusing.
[C] _ [F] A black man [Db] at mission, [Gb] _ _
_ _ [A] black [Eb] musician.
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In those days [Bb] they [Ab] put [Ebm] him [Db] in an _
[Gb] underdog [Eb] position.
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_ _ [E] _ _ Sellers and [A] chitlins, _
_ [Bb] [Eb] when Lester took him [Ebm] away.
_ _ [Eb] _ Arm in arm [Ebm] with black and white [Eb] and some saw red. _
And drove them from their hotel bed. _
[B] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ [Fm] Love is never [F] easy.
_ [B] It's short of [Bb] the hope we _ [G] [Gb] have for [Eb] _ happiness.
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Bright and [Ebm] sweet, love is never [Fm] easy street.
_ [C] _ Now we [B] are black and white embracing [F] out in the lunatic New York night.
[Db] It's [Bb] very unlikely we'll be [Eb] driven [Db] out of town.
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Or be [Db] hung in a tree, [Bb] _
that's unlikely.
[Ebm] _ _ Tonight, _ [Bb] _
[Db] _ _ [C] these [Gbm] crowds [Abm] _ _
[Bb] _ are [Eb] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] ten.
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Children [Eb] are up [Abm] dancing in the streets.
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In [Db] the sticky middle [B] of the [Gbm] night summer _ [E] serenade of taxi horns and fun [Eb] arcades.
Where right [Ab] or wrong, under [Eb] neon, [D] every feel _ [Abm] goes [Eb] on [Bbm] for you.
And in [Fm] the sidewalk is a [Ab] history book [Gb] and [Dbm] a circus.
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[G] _ Dangerous [Ebm] clouds balancing [Eb] dreadful and wonderful [Ebm] perceptions.
They have been handed day by day, _
_ [Bb] generations [Ebm] on down.
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_ _ [Db] _ We [G] _ _ [Ebm] _
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came up [B] from the subway [E] on the [B] music [A] of nightmares.
[B] To Charlie's place [E] and [B] Lester's saxophone [Db] in taxi [Eb] horns and [Gb] brakes.
[Abm] Now _ [A] Charlie's [B] down in Mexico _ [F] with the killers.
[Bb] So the sidewalk leads up with [C] music [F] to do.
Two [Abm] [B] little dancers _ _ [E] _ [A] _ [B] dancing outside a black [Em] bar.
_ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ There's a sign [Abm] up on the [B] arm, it says [Ebm] _
Popeye Hat Bar.
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_ And there's black [A] babies dancing [Gbm] _
_ _ [Ebm] _ [Db] tonight. _ _ _
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