Song For Sharon chords by Joni Mitchell

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
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G/AG/A         A augmentedA
  I went to Staten Island
Sharon
        D MajorD    Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
To buy myself a mandolin
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   And I saw the long white dress of love
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On a storefront mannequin
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   Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars
Eb/FEb/F          FF
   All for something lacy
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Some girl's going to see that dress
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And  crave that day like crazy

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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


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


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