Joni Mitchell – The Pirate Of Penance chords

PENANCE CRANE:
Bbm                       CmThe pirate anchored on a Wednesday
Bbm                       DAnd why he came to port I wonder
                     BbmTo see a lady so my friends say
     Dm7She dances for the sailors
                        AbmIn a smoky cabaret bar underground
                          BbDown in a cellar in a harbour town
Bbm                          CmI know he told her love was treasure
Bbm                            DAnd they would reap the fullest bounty
                          BbmHe only comes to port for pleasure
 Dm7So when the winds of morning
                                         AbmBlew the curtains in she woke and found he'd gone
                              BbI saw his sails unfurling Thursday dawn
 BbmThe pirate he will sink you with a kiss

He'll steal your heart and sail away


THE DANCER:

Saturday early we met in the cove near the forest


PENANCE:
 GbHe'll 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:
GbmHe 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:
         BbI was at sea then

I didn't see them
Bbm                          CmI don't believe what you are saying
Bbm                      DIt isn't true I hardly knew him
                                BbmIs this some game that you are playing
 Dm7Go ask the dancer she's the one who saw him last
                    AbmThe one who drew him here
                             BbHe hasn't come to me since spring last year
BbmThere was a time when he would

Bring me silks and sandalwood and Persian lace


THE DANCER:

(Then came another "goodbye" and another "Please don't go")


PENANCE:
 GbAnd 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:
 GbmI was at sea I tell you I was

Nowhere near the mentioned murder place


THE DANCER:

(Searching for sails that don't come

And I guess but I don't know)


PENANCE:
            BbGo ask the dancer

She knows the answer


THE DANCER:

I don't know


PENANCE:
               DShe knows the answer


THE DANCER:

I don't know


PENANCE:

She knows the answer


THE DANCER:

I don't know