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Joni Mitchell - The Pirate Of Penance Lyrics

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  • Penance crane:
  • The pirate anchored on a wednesday
  • And why he came to port I wonder
  • To see a lady so my friends say
  • She dances for the sailors
  • In a smoky cabaret bar underground
  • Down in a cellar in a harbor town
  • I know he told her love was treasure
  • And they would reap the fullest bounty
  • He only comes to port for pleasure
  • So when the winds of morning
  • Blew the curtains in she woke and found hed gone
  • I saw his sails unfurling thursday dawn
  • The pirate he will sink you with a kiss
  • Hell steal your heart and sail away
  • The dancer:
  • Saturday early we met in the cove near the forest
  • Penance:
  • Hell 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:
  • 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:
  • I was at sea then
  • I didnt see them
  • I dont believe what you are saying
  • It isnt true I hardly knew him
  • Is this some game that you are playing
  • Go ask the dancer shes the one who saw him last
  • The one who drew him here
  • He hasnt come to me since spring last year
  • There was a time when he would
  • Bring me silks and sandalwood and persian lace
  • The dancer:
  • (then came another goodbye and another please dont go)
  • Penance:
  • 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:
  • I was at sea I tell you I was
  • Nowhere near the mentioned murder place
  • The dancer:
  • (searching for sails that dont come
  • And I guess but I dont know)
  • Penance:
  • Go ask the dancer
  • She knows the answer
  • The dancer:
  • I dont know
  • Penance:
  • She knows the answer
  • The dancer:
  • I dont know
  • Penance:
  • She knows the answer
  • The dancer:
  • I dont know

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