《Chapitre 6: Goodbye pork pie hat》歌词

[00:05:44] words by Joni Mitchell

[00:05:44] music by Charles Mingus

[00:05:44] When Charlie speaks of Lester

[00:05:44] You know someone great has gone

[00:05:44] The sweetest swinging music man

[00:05:44] Had a Porkie Pig hat on

[00:05:44] A bright star

[00:05:44] In a dark age

[00:05:44] When the bandstands had a thousand ways

[00:05:44] Of refusing a black man admission

[00:05:44] Black musician

[00:05:44] In those days they put him in an

[00:05:44] Underdog position

[00:05:44] Cellars and chittlins'

[00:05:44] When Lester took him a wife

[00:05:44] Arm and arm went black and white

[00:05:44] And some saw red

[00:05:44] And drove them from their hotel bed

[00:05:44] Love is never easy

[00:05:44] It's short of the hope we have for happiness

[00:05:44] Bright and sweet

[00:05:44] Love is never easy street!

[00:05:44] Now we are black and white

[00:05:44] Embracing out in the lunatic New York night

[00:05:44] It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town

[00:05:44] Or be hung in a tree

[00:05:44] That's unlikely!

[00:05:44] Tonight these crowds

[00:05:44] Are happy and loud

[00:05:44] Children are up dancing in the streets

[00:05:44] In the sticky middle of the night

[00:05:44] Summer serenade

[00:05:44] Of taxi horns and fun arcades

[00:05:44] Where right or wrong

[00:05:44] Under neon

[00:05:44] Every feeling goes on!

[00:05:44] For you and me

[00:05:44] The sidewalk is a history book

[00:05:44] And a circus

[00:05:44] Dangerous clowns

[00:05:44] Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions

[00:05:44] They have been handed

[00:05:44] Day by day

[00:05:44] Generations on down

[00:05:44] We came up from the subway

[00:05:44] On the music midnight makes

[00:05:44] To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone

[00:05:44] In taxi horns and brakes

[00:05:44] Now Charlie's down in Mexico

[00:05:44] With the healers

[00:05:44] So the sidewalk leads us with music

[00:05:44] To two little dancers

[00:05:44] Dancing outside a black bar

[00:05:44] There's a sign up on the awning

[00:05:44] It says ";Pork Pie Hat Bar";

[00:05:44] And there's black babies dancing...

[00:05:44] Tonight!