Ladies Of The Canyon

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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 21:01:55 -1000

From: Harlan L Thompson

LADIES OF THE CANYON- Joni Mitchell

Trina wears her wampum beads, she fills her drawing book with line

Sewing lace on windows' weeds and filigree on leaf and vine

Vine and leaf are filligree and her coat's a secondhand one

Trimmed in antique luxury, she is a lady of the canyon

Do do do do do do do, do do do do do do do do do do do do do

Annie sits you down to eat, she always makes you welcome in

Cats and babies round her feet and all are fat and none are thin

None are thin and all are fat, she may bake some brownies today

Saying, you are welcome back, she is another canyon lady

Do do do do do do do, la la la la la la la la la la la la la

Estrella circus girl comes wrapped in songs and gypsy shawls

Songs like tiny hammers hurled at beveled mirrors in empty halls

Empty halls and beveled mirrors, sailing seas and climbing banyans

Come out for a visit here to be a lady of the canyon

Do do do do do do do, do do do do do do do do do do do do do

Trina takes her paints and her threads and she weaves a pattern all her own

Annie bakes her cakes and her breads and she gathers flowers for her home

For her home she gathers flowers and Estrella, dear companion

Colors up the sunshine hours pouring music down the canyon

Do do do do do do do, la la la la la la la la la la la la la

Coloring the sunshine hours, they are the ladies of the canyon

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NOTE: Thanks to Howard Wright for figuring these chords out.