Chelsea Morning

CHELSEA MORNING
By Joni Mitchell


Woke up, it was a chel-sea morn-ing,
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and the first thing that I heard
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Was a song out-side my win-dow, 
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and the traf-fic wrote the words.
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It came a-reel-ing up like Christ-mas bells, 
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and tap-ping up like pipes and drums.
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Oh, won’t you stay  We’ll put on the day
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And we’ll wear it ‘till the night comes
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Woke up, it was a chel-sea morn-ing, 
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and the first thing that I saw
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Was the sun through yel-low cur-tains, 
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and a rain-bow on the wall
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Blue, red, green and gold to wel-come you, 
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Crim-son crys-tal beads to beck-on
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Oh, won’t you stay  We’ll put on the day
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There’s a sun show ev-’ry sec-ond
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Now the cur-tain o-pens on a por-trait of to-day
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And the streets are paved with pass-ers-by.
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And pig-eons fly.  And pa-pers  lie
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A-wait-ing to blow a-way.
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Woke up, it was a chel-sea morn-ing, 
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and the first thing that I knew.
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There was milk and toast and hon-ey 
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and a bowl of or-ang-es, too
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And the sun poured in like but-ter-scotch 
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and stuck to all my sen-ses
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Oh, won’t you stay  We’ll put on the day
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And we-ll talk in pres-ent ten-ses
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When the cur-tain clos-es 
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and the rain-bow runs a-way
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I will bring you in-cense owls by night
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By can-dle-light  By jew-el-light
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If on-ly you will stay
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Pret-ty ba-by, won’t you
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Wake up, it’s a chel-sea morn-ing
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A young Joni Mitchell;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5DYLYHlKvk