Song For Sharon chords by Joni Mitchell

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
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G/A                  A
    I went to Staten Island
Sharon
                D       Dsus4  D
To buy myself a mandolin
F/G                            G
      And I saw the long white dress of love
     D                    Dsus4  D
On a storefront mannequin
Eb/F                                F
      Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars
Eb/F                    F
      All for something lacy
     G7sus4
Some girl's going to see that dress
    G7                    D    Dsus4   D
And   crave that day like crazy

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G/A                                       A
     Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada
                     D               Dsus4  D
They can balance and they can climb
F/G                        G
     Like their fathers be fore them
                                D         Dsus4    D
They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline
Eb/F                              F
      Shine your light on me Miss Liberty
Eb/F                         F
     Because as soon as this ferry boat docks
    G7sus4
I'm headed to the church
        G7
To play Bingo
       D                     Dsus4     D
Fleece me with the gamblers' flocks


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G/A                       A
    I can keep my cool at poker
              D         Dsus4     D
But I'm a foo ooll when love's at stake
F/G                           G
    Because I can't conceal e motion
                   D                        Dsus4    D
What I'm feeling's always written on my face
Eb/F                          F
      There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street
Eb/F                           F
     I went in to see her as a kind of joke
    G7sus4
And she lit a candle for my love luck
     G7          D                    Dsus4  D
And     eighteen bucks went up in smoke

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G/A                          A
      Sharon
I left my man
              D              Dsus4  D
At a North Da kota junction
F/G                                         G
     And I came out to the "Big Apple" here
            D                   Dsus4   D
To face the dream's malfunction
Eb/F                F
      Love's a repe titious danger
Eb/F                           F
      You'd think I'd be accus tomed to
        G7sus4        G7
Well
I do accept the changes
         D                         Dsus4 D
At least better than I used to do

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G/A                               A
      A woman I knew just drowned herself
             D        Dsus4   D
The well was deep and muddy
F/G                                    G
     She was just shaking off futility
      D                 Dsus4   D
Or pu nishing somebody
Eb/F                                 F
      My friends were calling up all day yesterday
Eb/F                  F
     All emotions and abstractions
            G7sus4                    G7
It seems we all live so close to that line
           D                   Dsus4   D
And so far from satisfaction

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G/A                              A
     Dora says, "Have children!"
                   D                  Dsus4   D
Mama and Betsy say
"Find yourself a charity."
F/G                         G                    D         Dsus4  D
     Help the needy and the crippled or put some time into ecolo  gy."
Eb/F                       F
      Well, there's a wide wide world of noble causes
Eb/F                  F
      And lovely land scapes to discover
G7sus4
But all I really wanna do right now
G7            D           Dsus4   D
Is  find ano ther lover


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G/A                                   A
      When we were kids in Maidstone
Sharon
                        D                   Dsus4   D
I went to every wedding in that little town
F/G                   G
     To see the tears and the kisses
                           D                       Dsus4   D
And the pretty lady in the white lace wedding gown
Eb/F                         F
     And walking home on the railroad tracks
Eb/F                          F
Or swinging on the playground swing
     G7sus4               G7
Lo-o-ove stimulated my il lusions
          D          Dsus4  D
More than anything


G/A                                A
     And when I went skating after Golden Reggie
                D                       Dsus4   D
You know it was white lace I was chasing
        F/G      G
Chasing dreams
                            D       Dsus4   D
Mama's nylons underneath my cowgirl jeans
Eb/F                        F
     He showed me first you get the kisses
Eb/F                      F
     And then you get the tears
        G7sus4                         G7
But the ceremony of the bells and lace
                          D      Dsus4   D
Still veils this reckless fool   here

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G/A                                      A
    Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink
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Circling in singles and in pairs
F/G                  G
    In this vigorous anonymity
                    D             Dsus4
A blank face at the window stares and
                                 Eb/F
stares and stares and stares and stares
                 F
And the power of reason
        Eb/F                 F
And the flowers of deep feel ings
        G7sus4
Seem to serve me
G7              D    Dsus4   D
Only to deceive me


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G/A                              A
     Sharon you've got a husband
                   D     Dsus4   D
And a family and a farm
F/G                            G
    I've got the apple of temp tation
              D                  Dsus4  D
And a diamond snake around my arm
Eb/F                         F
     But you still have your music
Eb/F                            F
     And I've still got my eyes on the land and the sky
    G7sus4                               G7
You sing for your friends and your family
                    D               Dsus4   D
I'll walk green pas tures by and by


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