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Goodbye Pork Pie Hatby Joni Mitchell When Charlie speaks of Lester You know someone great has gone The sweetest swinging music man Had a Porkie Pig hat on A bright star In a dark age When the bandstands had a thousand ways Of refusing a black man admission Black musician In those days they put him in an Underdog position Cellars and chitlins' When Lester took him a wife Arm and arm went black and white And some saw red And drove them from their hotel bed Love is never easy It's short of the hope we have for happiness Bright and sweet Love is never easy street! Now we are black and white Embracing out in the lunatic New York night It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town Or be hung in a tree That's unlikely! Tonight these crowds Are happy and loud Children are up dancing in the streets In the sticky middle of the night Summer serenade Of taxi horns and fun arcades Where right or wrong Under neon Every feeling goes on! For you and me The sidewalk is a history book And a circus Dangerous clowns Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions They have been handed Day by day Generations on down We came up from the subway On the music midnight makes To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone In taxi horns and brakes Now Charlie's down in Mexico With the healers So the sidewalk leads us with music To two little dancers Dancing outside a black bar There's a sign up on the awning It says "Pork Pie Hat Bar" And there's black babies dancing Tonight © 1978-1979; Crazy Crow Music |
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Additional information:Piano Transcriptions of Goodbye Pork Pie HatGoodbye Pork Pie Hat has been recorded by 45 others
Aeon (from "Aeon" - 1998)
Akihary, Monica (from "Above the Clouds, Among the Roots " - 2000) Anthony, Bruce (from "Jazz & Pop" - 1997) Biagini, Ilaria (from "Freedom" - 2013) Blouin, Johanne (from "Everything Must Change" - 2000) Bricker, Pam (from "U-Topia" - 2000) Brigitte Bader & Johnny Griffin (from "Passion, No Future, But Love " - ) Chief Noda (- ) Cordelia (from "Cordelia" - 2004) Cordes Sensibles (from "Invitation" - 2003) Cressman, Natalie (from "Unfolding" - 2012) Davis, Florence (- 2011) Emma Lee and Ben Cohen (from "I wished for you" - ) Fabio Ranza & Elisabetta Zamberlan (from "Be Cool" - 2002) Fehling, Annika (from "JazzFehlings" - 1996) Fisher, Cheryl (from "Cheryl Fisher Live In Concert - God Bless The Child " - 2001) Haberkamp, Clara (- ) Hatton, Laura (- 2012) Jason Jenkins Quartet (from "Just Hearsay" - 2008) Jeutter, Ute (from "Eclipse" - 2005) Jim Shearer & Charlie Wood (from "The Memphis Hang" - 2008) João, Maria & Mário Laginha (from "Chocolate" - 2008) Klüvers Big Band (from "Jasmine" - 1993) Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Singers (from "Inceptions" - 1996) Lupa (from "House Of Blue " - 2005) Meza, Camila (from "Retrato" - 2009) Minako Yoshida & Kazumi Watanabe (from "Nowadays" - 2008) Mingus Big Band (from "Live at Jazz Standard" - 2010) Murphy, Mark (from "Jazz Standards" - 1998) Murphy, Mark (from "Bop For Miles" - 2004) Nadja Stoller Trio (from "Once Upon A Summer Time" - 2002) Norbert Gottschalk & Frank Haunschild (from "The Art Of A Duo (Favorite Songs)" - 2007) Ogre (from "Electrodomestico" - 2012) Pavolka, Akiko (from "House of Illusion" - 1998) Rendell, Don (from "What Am I Here For?" - 1996) Ring, Milan (- 2012) Salleh, Anna (from "A Felicidade" - 2012) Saxkartel (from "Yellow Sounds and Other Colours" - 2007) Shaw, Ian (from "Ghostsongs" - 1992) Svobodova, Eva (from "Fine & Mellow" - 1996) Teychené, Virginie (from "Bright And Sweet" - 2012) The Jazz Circle (from "Joshua" - 2006) Tschantret, Stefania (from "Love For Sale" - 2010) Walker, Sally (from "Got the World on a String" - 2003) Wang, Shanley (from "Consept" - 2007) » [more information on recordings by other artists]
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