《Goodbye Pork Pie Hat》歌词

[00:00:00] Words by Joni Mitchell

[00:00:04] Music by Charles Mingus

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

[00:00:07] You know someone great has gone

[00:00:10] The sweetest swinging music man

[00:00:15] Had a Porkie Pig hat on

[00:00:17] A bright star

[00:01:48] In a dark age

[00:01:49] When the bandstands had a thousand ways

[00:01:54] Of refusing a black man admission

[00:01:58] Black musician

[00:02:01] In those days they put him in an

[00:02:02] Underdog position

[00:02:02] Cellars and chittlins'

[00:02:02] When Lester took him a wife

[00:02:34] Arm and arm went black and white

[00:02:35] And some saw red

[00:02:35] And drove them from their hotel bed

[00:02:36] Love is never easy

[00:02:44] It's short of the hope we have for happiness

[00:02:46] Bright and sweet

[00:02:54] Love is never easy street

[00:02:55] Now we are black and white

[00:02:56] Embracing out in the lunatic New York night

[00:02:57] It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town

[00:02:59] Or be hung in a tree

[00:03:00] That's unlikely

[00:03:01] Tonight these crowds

[00:03:02] Are happy and loud

[00:03:06] Children are up dancing in the streets

[00:03:11] In the sticky middle of the night

[00:03:12] Summer serenade

[00:03:12] Of taxi horns and fun arcades

[00:03:13] Where right or wrong

[00:03:14] Under neon

[00:03:14] Every feeling goes on

[00:03:14] For you and me

[00:03:15] The sidewalk is a history book

[00:03:18] And a circus

[00:03:18] Dangerous clowns

[00:03:20] Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions

[00:03:21] They have been handed

[00:03:22] Day by day

[00:04:21] Generations on down

[00:04:21] We came up from the subway

[00:04:22] On the music midnight makes

[00:04:23] To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone

[00:04:29] In taxi horns and brakes

[00:04:30] Now Charlie's down in Mexico

[00:04:30] With the healers

[00:04:34] So the sidewalk leads us with music

[00:04:34] To two little dancers

[00:04:35] Dancing outside a black bar

[00:04:36] There's a sign up on the awning

[00:04:38] It says

[00:04:38] Pork Pie Hat Bar

[00:04:40] And there's black babies dancing

[00:04:47] Tonight