作词 : Joni Mitchell 作曲 : Charles Mingus 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 chittlins'
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
[00:00.000] 作词 : Joni Mitchell [00:01.000] 作曲 : Charles Mingus [00:42.92]When Charlie speaks of Lester [00:46.02] [00:47.53]You know someone great has gone [00:50.59] [00:51.78]The sweetest swinging music man [00:55.12] [00:56.61]Had a Porkie Pig hat on [00:59.00] [01:00.46]A bright star [01:02.03] [01:03.12]In a dark age [01:04.05] [01:04.77]When the bandstands had a thousand ways [01:09.19]Of refusing a black man admission [01:15.10] [01:18.05]Black musician [01:19.76] [01:21.86]In those days they put him in an [01:25.65]Underdog position [01:27.37] [01:33.32]Cellars and chittlins' [01:34.37] [01:36.39]When Lester took him a wife [01:39.31] [01:42.18]Arm and arm went black and white [01:44.56] [01:45.89]And some saw red [01:47.33] [01:49.08]And drove them from their hotel bed [01:52.43] [01:55.88]Love is never easy [01:58.68] [02:00.32]It's short of the hope we have for happiness [02:04.47] [02:07.52]Bright and sweet [02:08.28] [02:09.37]Love is never easy street [02:11.69] [02:13.93]Now we are black and white [02:16.61]Embracing out in the lunatic New York night [02:19.96] [02:20.59]It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town [02:23.10] [02:25.03]Or be hung in a tree [02:28.36] [02:29.65]That's unlikely [02:30.24] [02:32.60]Tonight these crowds [02:36.73] [02:39.73]Are happy and loud [02:45.77] [02:48.21]Children are up dancing in the streets [02:49.97] [02:52.91]In the sticky middle of the night [02:54.91]Summer serenade [02:56.53]Of taxi horns and fun arcades [02:58.69] [03:00.22]Where right or wrong [03:01.36] [03:02.56]Under neon [03:03.08] [03:04.17]Every feeling goes on [03:06.60] [03:07.35]For you and me [03:09.58] [03:10.12]The sidewalk is a history book [03:12.08] [03:13.52]And a circus [03:14.27] [03:14.95]Dangerous clowns [03:16.26] [03:17.47]Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions [03:21.33]They have been handed [03:22.81]Day by day [03:23.52] [03:24.15]Generations on down [03:26.71] [04:22.55]We came up from the subway [04:25.34] [04:26.50]On the music midnight makes [04:30.15] [04:31.59]To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone [04:35.35] [04:36.26]In taxi horns and brakes [04:39.67] [04:40.73]Now Charlie's down in Mexico [04:43.82] [04:45.37]With the healers [04:46.51] [04:47.60]So the sidewalk leads us with music [04:50.43] [04:51.59]To two little dancers [04:54.50] [04:57.92]Dancing outside a black bar [05:00.14] [05:03.25]There's a sign up on the awning [05:06.07] [05:07.43]It says Pork pie hat bar [05:10.48] [05:14.36]And there's black babies dancing [05:16.76] [05:19.01]Tonight
