Joni Mitchell – The Pirate Of Penance (Guitar)

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PENANCE CRANE:

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The pirate anchored on a Wednesday

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And why he came to port I wonder

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To see a lady so my friends say

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She dances for the sailors

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In a smoky cabaret bar underground

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Down in a cellar in a harbour town

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I know he told her love was treasure

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And they would reap the fullest bounty

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He only comes to port for pleasure

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So when the winds of morning

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Blew the curtains in she woke and found he'd gone

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I saw his sails unfurling Thursday dawn

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The pirate he will sink you with a kiss

He'll steal your heart and sail away THE DANCER: Saturday early we met in the cove near the forest PENANCE:

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He'll leave you drowning in the flotsam Of a broken promise in the bay

THE DANCER: (Dancing we wakened the dawn and the birds into chorus) PENANCE:

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He came again to see her

Yes I think they told me it was Saturday THE DANCER: (Ask Penance Crane she was out in her garden she saw us) PENANCE:

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I was at sea then

I didn't see them

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I don't believe what you are saying

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It isn't true I hardly knew him

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Is this some game that you are playing

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Go ask the dancer she's the one who saw him last

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The one who drew him here

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He hasn't come to me since spring last year

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There was a time when he would

Bring me silks and sandalwood and Persian lace THE DANCER: (Then came another "goodbye" and another "Please don't go") PENANCE:

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And he would hold me close

And tell my sailing stories by the fireplace THE DANCER: (All night I dance and all day I keep watch with my sorrow) PENANCE:

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I was at sea I tell you I was

Nowhere near the mentioned murder place THE DANCER: (Searching for sails that don't come And I guess but I don't know) PENANCE:

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Go ask the dancer

She knows the answer THE DANCER: I don't know PENANCE:

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She knows the answer

THE DANCER: I don't know PENANCE: She knows the answer THE DANCER: I don't know