Hunter - Joni Mitchell

I was alone and sickly

It was a quarter of a moonlit night

I heard him cry through my window shade

And it filled me so full of fright

But I could not turn my back on him

I put on the back porch light

«Can I help you» said the Good Samaritan

«Can I help you» said the Good Samaritan

I brought him bread and a blanket

But I told him «You can’t come in»

You can sleep outside in the tool shed

Though a little rain comes in

Oh, I don’t know you, you’re a stranger

I don’t know where you’ve been

«You can’t come in here» said the keeper of the inn

«I don’t want you in here,» said the keeper of the inn

But I couldn’t sleep for the thinking

You know my night got so insane

I thought, maybe he was an angel

And I left him out in the rain

And what if he was the devil

He’d be coming after me again

But when I woke in the weary morning he was gone

When I woke in the weary morning he was gone

I thought maybe he was an angel

And I left him out in the rain

And what if he was the devil

He’d be coming after me again

When I woke in the weary morning he was gone

When I woke in the weary morning, Lord, he was gone