מילים לשיר Goodbye Pork Pie Hat – Joni Mitchell

When Charlie speaks of Lester
You know someone great has gone
The sweetest swinging music man
Had a Porkie Pig hat on
In a dark age
A bright star
Of refusing a black man admission
When the bandstands had a thousand ways
Black musician
Underdog position
In those days they put him in an
Cellars and chittlins' Arm and arm went black and white
When Lester took him a wife
And some saw red
And drove them from their hotel bed
It's short of the hope we have for happiness
Love is never easy
Bright and sweet
Love is never easy street!
Now we are black and white
It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town
Embracing out in the lunatic New York night
Or be hung in a tree
That's unlikely!
Tonight these crowds Are happy and loud
Summer serenade
Children are up dancing in the streets
In the sticky middle of the night
Of taxi horns and fun arcades
Where right or wrong
Under neon
The sidewalk is a history book
Every feeling goes on!
For you and me
And a circus
Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions
Dangerous clowns
Day by day
They have been handed
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
There's a sign up on the awning
Dancing outside a black bar
It says "Pork Pie Hat Bar"
And there's black babies dancing.
Tonight.