Joni Mitchell – Blue Motel Room (Guitar)

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[Intro] Cadd9 Gsus4 Cadd9 Gsus4 [Verse]
       C6/9                F/G
I've got a blue motel room with a blue bedspread

  Eb/F                      F13
I've got the blues inside and outside my head

Db/Eb                      Eb13
   Will you still love me

       F/G                 C6/9   F/G
When I call you up when I'm down
[Verse]
C6/9                      F/G
   Here in Savannah it's pouring rain

Eb/F                                   F13
   Palm trees in the porch light like slick black cellophane

Db/Eb                      Eb13
   Will you still love me

       F/G                    C6/9
When I call you up when I get back to town
[Bridge]
Bbmaj7
   I know that you've got all those pretty girls coming on

 F/G                       G13
Hanging on your boom-boom-pachyderm

Eb/F                                          F13
   Will you tell those girls that you've got German Measles

                             C6/9
Honey, tell them you've got germs

F/G
   I hope you'll be thinking of me

        G13
Because I'll be thinking of you

Ab/Bb                  Bb13
   While I'm traveling home alone

Db/Eb                         Eb13       F/G
   Tell those girls that you've got Joni

                   C6/9   F/G
She's coming back home
[Instrumental] C6/9 F/G Eb/F F13 Db/Eb Eb13 F/G C6/9 [Verse]
C6/9                F/G
   I've got road maps from two dozen states

       Eb/F             F13
I've got coast to coast just to contemplate

Db/Eb                      Eb13
   Will you still love me

F/G                C6/9
When I get back to town
[Verse]
C6/9                                 F/G
   It's funny how these old feelings hang around

Eb/F                         F13
   You think they're gone, no, no, they just go underground

Db/Eb                      Eb13
   Will you still love me

F/G                C6/9
When I get back to L.A town
[Bridge]
Bbmaj7
   You and me, we're like America and Russia

F/G                     G13
   We're always keeping score

Eb/F                          F13
   We're always balancing the power

                         C6/9
And that can get to be a cold cold war

F/G                                        G13
   We're going to have to hold ourselves a peace talk

Ab/Bb        Bb13
   In some neutral café

Db/Eb                 Eb13                   F/G
   You lay down your sneaking round the town honey

             C6/9
And I'll lay down the highway
[Outro]
           Cadd9
I've got a blue motel room with a blue bedspread

                Gsus4
I've got the blues inside and outside my head

Gsus4                                              Cadd9
   Will you still love me when I get back to town?