Joni Mitchell – The Boho Dance (Guitar)

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Down in the cellar in the Boho Zone

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I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well

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Just another hard-time band

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With Negro affectations

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I was a hopeful in rooms like this

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When I was working cheap

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It's an old romance, the Boho dance

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It hasn't gone to sleep

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But even on the scuffle

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The cleaner's press was in my jeans

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And any eye for detail

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Caught a little lace along the seams

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And you were in the parking lot

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Subterranean by your own design

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The virtue of your style inscribed

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On your contempt for mine

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Jesus was a beggar, he was rich in grace

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And Solomon kept his head in all his glory

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It's just that some steps outside the Boho dance

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Have a fascination for me

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A camera pans the cocktail hour

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Behind a blind of potted palms

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And finds a lady in a Paris dress

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With runs in her nylons

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You read those books where luxury

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Comes as a guest to take a slave

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Books where artists in noble poverty

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Go like virgins to the grave

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Don't you get sensitive on me

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'Cause I know you're just too proud

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You couldn't step outside the Boho dance now

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Even if good fortune allowed

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Like a priest with a pornographic watch

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Looking and longing on the sly

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Sure it's stricken from your uniform

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But you can't get it out of your eyes

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Nothing is capsulized in me

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On either side of town

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The streets were never really mine

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Not mine these glamour gowns