Ani DiFranco – Joyful Girl (Guitar)

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Chords

These are the chords for the version she plays at the Bronco Bowl Theatre in Texas, 1999. When you play the C chord, put your pinky finger on the first string, third fret. Watch the video to get the timing. It sounds like it's in a tad different key in the beginning; If anyone would like to correct me, please do.
                        C
I do it for the joy it brings

                         G        Am
Because I'm a joyful girl

                                 C
Because the world owes me nothing

                             G                Am
And we owe each other the world

                                         C
I do it because it's the least I can do

                              G                         Am
I do it because I learned it from you

                   C
I do it just because I want to

G                            Am
Because I want to

                      C
Everything I do is judged

                                        G                     Am
And they mostly get it wrong, but oh well

                                  C
'Cuz the bathroom mirror has not budged

                                      G                      Am
And the woman who lives there can't tell

                                   C
The truth from the stuff that they say

                                G          Am
And she looks me in the eye

                                                        C
And says would you prefer the easy way?

              G                        Am
No, well O.K. then, don't cry
[The part in between consists of Dm, C, Em, and G.]
                            C
And I wonder if everything I do

  G   Am
I do instead

                         C
Of something I want to do more

        G                            Am
The question fills my head

                                        C
I know that there's no grand plan here

                           G         Am
This is just the way it goes

                                       C
And when everything else seems unclear

                   G       Am
I guess at least I know