Written by Joni Mitchell
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I went to Staten Island, Sharon
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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
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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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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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G/A A
A 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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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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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 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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