Joni Mitchell – Don Juans Reckless Daughter (Guitar)

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I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter

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I came out two days on your tail

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Those two bald-headed days in No-vember

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Before the first snowflakes sail

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Out on the vast and subtle plains of myste-ry

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A split tongue spirit talks

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Noble as a nickel chief

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Striking up an old jukebox

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And he says,   "snakes along the railroad tracks"

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He says,     "eagles in jet trails"

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He says,      "coils around feathers and talons on scales"

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      "Gravel under the belly plates"

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He says,       "wind in the Wings"

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He says, "big bird dragging its tail in the dust

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Snake kite flying on a string"

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     I come from open prairie

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Given some wisdom and a lot of jive

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Last night the ghosts of my old ideas

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Reran on Channel Five

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And it howled so spooky for its eagle soul

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I nearly broke down and cried

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But the split tongue spirit laughed at me

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He says, "your serpent cannot be denied"

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     Our serpents love the whisky bars

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They love the romance of the crime

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But didn't I see a neon sign

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Fester on your hotel blind?

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And a country road come off the wall

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And swoop down on the crowd at the bar

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And put me at the top of your danger list

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Just for being so much like you are

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You're a coward against the alti-tude

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You're a coward against the flesh

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Coward, caught between yes and no

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Reckless this time on the line for yes, yes, yes!

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Reckless brazen in the play

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Of your changing traffic lights

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Coward, slinking down the hall

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To another restless night

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As we center behind the eight ball

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As we rock between the sheets

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As we siphon the colored lan-guage

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Off the farms and the streets

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     Here in good old "God save America"

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     The home of the brave and the free

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We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards

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Of some duality

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Of restless multi-plicity(Oh, say can you see)

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Restless for streets and honky-tonks

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Restless for home and rou-tine

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Restless for country safety and her

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Restless for the likes of reckless me

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Restless sweeps like fire and rain

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Over virgin wilderness

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It prowls like hookers and thieves

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Through bolt-locked tenements

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     Behind my bolt locked door

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The eagle and the serpent are at war in me

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The serpent fighting for blind de-sire

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The eagle for clarity

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    What strange prizes these battles bring

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     These hectic joys, these weary blues

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Puffed up and strutting when I think I win

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Down and shaken when I think I lose

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There are rivets up here in this ea-gle

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There are box cars down there on your snake

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And we are twins of spirit

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No matter which route home we take -Or what we forsake

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We're going to come up   to the eyes of clari- ty

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And we'll go down to the beads of guile

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There is danger and educa- tion

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In living out such a reckless life style

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     I touched you on the central plains

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It was       plane to train my twin

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It was just plane shadow to train shadow

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But to me it was skin to skin

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     The spirit talks in spectrums

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He talks to mother earth to father sky

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Self indulgence to self denial

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Man to woman, Scales to feathers

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You and I Eagles in the sky You and I

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 Snakes in the grass- You and I

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 Crawl and fly- You and I

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  Oh, you and I, you and I, you and I

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By the dawn's early light

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You and I, you and I

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You and I, you and I

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Oh, you and I