"My Old Man"
By Joni Mitchell



        
  My old man, 

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      he's a s

/   
inger  in  the

       
  park

             
  He's a walke

             
r in the rain

       
he's a dancer 

    
 in   the   da

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rk

             
We don't need 

            
no piece of pa

          
per from the C

          
ity Hall 

            
Keeping us tig

             
ht(tied?)and t

rue

    
  My old man, 

           
  keeping away

/   
    my blues


  He's my suns

hine..... etc

....until

              
but when he's 

  
gone, me and t

              
hem lonesome b

     
lues         c

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ollide

    
The bed's too 

         
big, the fryin

     
g pan's too wi

de

/         /       /

Lyrics:

My old man
He's a singer in the park
He's a walker in the rain
He's a dancer in the dark
We don't need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
My old man
Keeping away my blues

He's my sunshine in the morning
He's my fireworks at the end of the day
He's the warmest chord I ever heard
Play that warm chord, play and stay baby
We don't need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
My old man
Keeping away my blues

But when he's gone
Me and them lonesome blues collide
The bed's too big
The frying pan's too wide

Then he comes home
And he takes me in his loving arms
And he tells me all his troubles
And he tells me all my charms
We don't need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
No, my old man
Keeping away my blues

But when he's gone
Me and them lonesome blues collide
The bed's too big
The frying pan's too wide

My old man
He's a singer in the park
He's a walker in the rain
He's a dancer in the dark
We don't need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
No, my old man
Keeping away my lonesome blues