Goodbye Porkpie Hat

Ballad Charles Mingus/Joni Mitchell

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When Charl - ie speaks of Les - ter you know some one great has gone the
came up from the sub way on the mus - ic mid - night makes to

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sweet - est swing - in' mus - ic man had a pork - y pig hat on a
Char - lie's bass and Les - ter's sax - o - phone in tax - i horns and brakes now

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bright star in a dark age when the band - stands had a thous - and ways of re -
Charl - ie's down in Mex - i - co with the heal - ers so the side - walk leads us with

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fus - ing a black man ad - miss - ion 3 black
mus - ic to two litt - le dan - cers danc - in' out - side the

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mu - sic - ian in those days they put him in an un - der - dog po -

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Les - ter took him a wife arm in arm went black and white

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and some saw red and drove them from their hot - el be - d

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lo - ve is nev - er eas - y it's short of the hope we have for

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happ - i - ness bright and sweet love is nev - er eas - y street

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No - w we are black and white em - brac - ing out in the lun - a - tic New York night it's ver - y un - like - ly we'll be driv - en

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out of town or be hung in a tree that's un - like - ly
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To - night these crowds are

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ha - ppy and loud child - ren are up dan - cing in the

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streets in the stick - y middle of the night summ - er ser - e - nade of tax - i horns and fun ar - cades

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where right or wrong un - der ne - on ever - y fee - lin' goes on for

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you and me the side - walk is a hist - ory book and a cir - cus, dang - er - ous clowns

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bal an - cing dread - ful and won - der - ful, per - cep - tions they have been hand ed day by day, gen - er - a tions on
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black bar there's a sign up on the awn - ing it says "Pork - pie

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Hat Bar" and there's black bab - ies danc - ing to night