People’s Party- Joni Mitchell
*Tuning: DADF#AD*
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Intro:
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All the people at this par-ty
They’ve got a lot of style
They’ve got stamps of many coun-tries
They’ve got passport smiles
Some are friend-ly, some are cutting
Some are watch-ing it from the wings
Some are stand-ing in the cen- - ter
Giving to get something
Photo beauty gets at-ten- tion
Then her eye paint’s running down
She’s got a rose in her teeth
And a lampshade crown
One minute she’s so happy
Then she’s cry-ing on someone’s knee
Saying, “Laugh-ing and cry-ing
You know, it’s the same release”
I told you when I met you
I was cra-zy
Cry for us all, beauty
Cry for Eddie in the cor-ner
Thinking he’s nobody
And Jack behind his joker
And stone-cold Grace behind her fan
And me in my frightened si- - -lence
Thinking I don’t understand
I feel like I’m sleep- ing
Can you wake me?
You seem to have a broad-er sensibility
I’m just liv-ing on nerves and feelings
With a weak and a lazy mind
And com-ing to people’s par- - ties
Fumb-ling deaf, dumb, and blind
I wish I had more sense of humor
Keeping the sad- -ness at bay
Throwing the lightness on these things
Laughing it all away
(3x)
Laugh-ing it all away