מילים לשיר Song For Sharon – Joni Mitchell

I went to Staten Island.
To buy myself a mandolin
And I saw the long white dress of love
Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars.
On a storefront mannequin
Some girl's going to see that dress
All for something lacy
And crave that day like crazy Like their fathers before them
Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada
They can balance and they can climb
They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline
Shine your light on me Miss Liberty
Because as soon as this ferry boat docks
I'm headed to the church
To play Bingo
Fleece me with the gamblers' flocks I can keep my cool at poker
But I'm a fool when love's at stake
Because I can't conceal emotion
What I'm feeling's always written on my face
There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street
I went in to see her as a kind of joke
And she lit a candle for my love luck
And eighteen bucks went up in smoke
Sharon, I left my man At a North Dakota junction
And I came out to the "Big Apple" here
To face the dream's malfunction
Love's a repetitious danger
You'd think I'd be accustomed to
Well, I do accept the changes
At least better than I used to do A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
It seems we all live so close to that line
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
And so far from satisfaction Mama and Betsy sayDora says, "Have children!"
Help the needy and the crippled or put some time into Ecology."
Well, there's a wide wide world of noble causes
But all I really want right now
And lovely landscapes to discover Is.find another lover
When we were kids in Maidstone, Sharon
I went to every wedding in that little town
To see the tears and the kisses
And the pretty lady in the white lace wedding gown
Or swinging on the playground swing
And walking home on the railroad tracks
Love stimulated my illusions
More than anything You know it was white lace I was chasing
And when I went skating after Golden Reggie
Chasing dreams
Mama's nylons underneath my cowgirl jeans
He showed me first you get the kisses
And then you get the tears
But the ceremony of the bells and lace
Still veils this reckless fool here Now there are 29 skaters on Wolmann rink
A blank face at the window stares and stares and stares and stares
Circling in singles and in pairs
And the power of reason
In this vigorous anonymity
And the flowers of deep feeling
Seem to serve me Only to deceive me
Sharon you've got a husband
And a family and a farm
I've got the apple of temptation
And a diamond snake around my arm
But you still have your music
And I've still got my eyes on the land and the sky
You sing for your friends and your family
I'll walk green pastures by and by.