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That Song About The Midwayby Joni Mitchell I met you on a midway at a fair last year And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear * You were playing on the horses, you were playing on the guitar strings You were playing like a devil wearing wings, wearing wings You looked so grand wearing wings Do you tape them to your shoulders just to sing Can you fly I heard you can! Can you fly Like an eagle doin' your hunting from the sky I followed with the sideshows to another town And I found you in a trailer on the camping grounds You were betting on some lover, you were shaking up the dice And I thought I saw you cheating once or twice, once or twice I heard your bid once or twice Were you wondering was the gamble worth the price Pack it in I heard you did! Pack it in Was it hard to fold a hand you knew could win So lately you've been hiding, it was somewhere in the news And I'm still at these races with my ticket stubs and my blues And a voice calls out the numbers, and it sometimes mentions mine And I feel like I've been working overtime, overtime I've lost my fire overtime Always playin' one more hand for one more dime Slowin' down I'm gettin' tired! Slowin' down And I envy you the valley that you've found 'Cause I'm midway down the midway Slowin' down, down, down, down © 1969; |
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Ruby in a black man's ear: [The following was submitted by Patrick Leader] There was an editorial in the Sunday 'week in review' section in the New York Times, about Shakespeare [reprinted below], with a Joni mention.
"Or that his words would inspire their own honoring thefts: Joni Mitchell took a glittering simile of his for "That Song About the Midway"; ..." So I googled to find the original reference and found a direct comparison... "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Guitar Transcriptions of That Song About The Midway
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That Song About The Midway has been recorded by 12 others
Annie & the Hedonists (from "Moonglow on the Midway" - 2005)
Birdsall, Megan (from "Track 13" - 2005) Collins, Judy (- 2004) Collins, Judy (from "Portrait of an American Girl " - 2005) Dee, Paula (from "Love the Wind in My Hair " - 1979) Jazz Folk (from "Jazz in the Stone Age" - 2009) Noland, Rick (from "Live At The Copper Hearth" - 2007) Raitt, Bonnie (from "Streetlights" - 1974) Raitt, Bonnie (from "(Live)" - 1988) Reynolds, Mary Catherine (from "Ohthree" - 2003) The Steve Klink Trio (from "Places To Come From, Places To Go" - 2002) Van Ronk, Dave (from "Sunday Street" - 1976) » [more information on recordings by other artists]
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