A Strange Boy tab by Joni Mitchell

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1st verse:

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A strange boy is       weaving a


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course of grace and


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havoc on a      yellow skateboard


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         through midday sidewalk


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Just when I think he's


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foolish and childish


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       and I want him to be


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manly   I   catch my fool and my


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child needing love and


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understanding


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what a strange   strange boy


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         He still lives with his family


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even the war and the     Navy


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Couldn't bring him to ma-       turity


Additional verses:

He keeps referring back to school days
And clinging to his child
Fidgeting and bullied
His crazy wisdom holding onto somthing wild
He asked me to be patient
Well I failed
"Grow up!" I cried
And as the smoke was clearing, he said
"Give me one good reason why!"
What a strange, strange boy
He sees the cars as sets of waves
Sequences of mass and space
He sees the damage in my face

We got high on travel
And we got drunk on alcohol
And on love the strongest poison and medicine of all
See how that feeling comes and goes
Like the pull of moon on tides
Now I am surf rising
Now parched ribs of sand at his side
What a strange, strange boy
I gave him clothes and jewelry
I gave him my warm body
I gave him power over me

A thousand glass eyes were staring
In a cellar full of antique dolls
I found an old piano
And sweet chords rose up in waxed New England halls
While the borders were snoring
Under crisp white sheets of curfew


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We were newly lovers then   We were


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fire in the stiff-blue-haired


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house rules


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