Joni Mitchell – Borderline (Guitar)
Key
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Versions
(2)
Guitar Tab
Guitar
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
[Intro]
E B C#m B
E B C#m B
[Verse 1]
E A E Everybody looks so ill at ease A E So distrustful so displeased A Running down the table B B7 I see a borderline Em/B B7 Like a barbed wire fence Em/B B7 Strung tight strung tense Em/B Prickling with pretense G#m7 A borderline F# B F# B F# Why are you smirking at your friend? B Is this to be the night when G#m F# E All well-wishing ends? A E All credibility revoked? A E Thin skin thick jokes! A Can we blame it on the smoke, B E This borderline?
[Interlude]
E B C#m B
E B C#m B
[Verse 2]
E A E Every bristling shaft of pride A Church or nation E Team or tribe A Every notion we subscribe to B B7 Is just a borderline Em/B B7 Good or bad we think we know Em/B B7 As if thinking makes things so! Em/B G#m All convictions grow along a borderline F# B F# B F# Smug in your jaded expertise B You scathe the wonder world G#m F# And you praise barbarity E A E In this illusionary place A E This scared hard-edged rat race A All liberty is laced with B E Borderlines
[Interlude]
E B C#m B
E B C#m B
[Verse 3]
E A E Every income every age A E Every fashion-plated rage A Every measure every gauge B B7 Creates a borderline Em/B B7 Every stone thrown through glass Em/B B7 Every mean-streets-kick ass Em/B Every swan caught on the grass G#m Will draw a borderline F# B You snipe so steady F# B F# You snub so snide B So ripe and ready G#m F# E To diminish and deride! A E You're so quick to condescend A E My opinionated friend A All you deface all you defend B E B C#m Is just a borderline B E B C#m Just a borderline B E B C#m Another borderline B E Just a borderline