Song for Sharon Chords by Joni Mitchell

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[Bb] _ I went to Staten Island, Sharon, [Bbm] to buy myself [Eb] a mandolin
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[Ebm] And I saw the long white dress [Ab] of love [Db] on a [Bb] storefront mannequin _ _ _ _
[Gb] Big boat [Dbm] truckin' back with a [Gb] belly full of cars
_ [Dbm] All for something [Gb] lacy _ [Ebm] Some girl's gonna see that dress [Ab] and crave
[Eb] that day like [Eb] crazy _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] Little Indian kids [Fm] on a bridge [Bb] up in Canada [Bbm] They can balance [Bb] and they can climb
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Like their fathers before them [Eb] they'll walk the [Db]
[Eb] girders of the Manhattan [Bb] skyline
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Shine no [Dbm] light on me, Miss [Gb] Liberty _ _ [Dbm] Because as soon as this [Gb] ferry boat docks
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I'm headed to the church [Ab] to play bingo _ [Bb]
Fleece me with a [Eb] gambler's flocks
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I can keep my cool at poker But I'm a [Eb] fool [Bb] when love's at stake
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Because I can't [Ab] conceal emotion But [Bb] I'm feelings always written on my face
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[Dbm] There's a gypsy down [Gb] on Blaker Street [Db] _
I [Dbm] wanted to see her as [Gb] a kind of joke
[Ebm] When she lit a candle for my love [Ab] lockin' _ [Bb] Eighteen bucks went up in [Eb] smoke
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Sharon, I left my [Bb] man at a North Dakota junction _ [Eb] And _ _ [Ab] _
I [Ebm] came out to the Big Apple [Ab] here
[Eb] To face the dream's [Bb] malfunction _ [Eb] _ _ _ [E] _
_ Love's a [Gb] repetitious danger
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You'd think I'd be [Gb] accustomed to Well, [Ebm] I do
_ [Ab] Accept the changes [Eb] At least better than I used to do
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The woman I knew just drowned herself The [Eb] well was deep and muddy
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She was just shakin' off [Ab] futility For _ [Eb]
punishing somebody
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My friends were callin' up all day yesterday _ [Db] _
All emotions [Gb] and abstractions
It [Ebm] seems we all live so close [Ab] to that line And so [Eb] far from satisfaction
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[Fm] Dora says have [Bb] children [Bbm] Mama and Betsy [Eb] say
[Bb] Find yourself a charity Help [Ebm] _ _
the needy [Ab] and the crippled
[Bbm] Put [Eb] some time into ecology _ [Db] Well, _ there's a [Gb] wide, wide world of noble causes
And landscapes to discover _ [Ebm]
But all I need [Ab] now is find [Eb] another lover
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[Bb] When we were kids and made stone, Sharon I went to every wedding in that little town
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To see the tears and the kisses And the [Bb] pretty lady in the white lace [Eb] wedding gown
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and walking home on the railroad tracks Or [Dbm] swinging on the playground [Gb] _ swing
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_ stimulated my illusions more [Eb] than anything _ And _ _ [Ab] _
[Bb] when I went skidding after Golden [F] Reggie
You know [Bb] it was white lace I was chasing _ _ Chasing [Ebm] dream
_ _ _ [Ab] _ Mama's nylon's [Eb] underneath my cowgirl jeans _ _ _ _ [Gb]
You shoot me first to get the kisses _
And [Dbm] then you get [Gb] the kiss _ [Ebm] But the ceremony of the bells [Ab] and lace
Still [Eb] bails this reckless school here _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] Now there are 29 skaters on Wallman Rink Circling in singles and in pairs
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[Eb] In this vigorous [Ab] anonymity The blank [Eb] face at the window
Stare and stare and stares and stares [Gb] and stares And the power of reason
_ [Ab] And the flowers of deep [Gb] feeling Sing [Ab] the ceremony _ _ only to [Eb] deceive me _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Sharon, you got a husband And a family [Eb] and a farm
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[Ebm] I got the apple of [Ab] temptation And a diamond [Eb]
snake [Bb] around my arm
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You still have [Gb] your music _ [Dbm] And I've still got my [Gb] eyes on the land and the sky
[Ebm] You sing for your friends and your [Ab] family I walk [Eb] green pastures by and by
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