Joni Mitchell – Hejira (Guitar)

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I'm traveling in some vehicle

E7sus4                E
I'm sitting in some cafe

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A defector from the petty wars

                         B
That shell shocked love away

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There's comfort in melancholy

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When there's no need to explain

              E7sus4          E
It's just as natural as the weather

                       B
In this moody sky today

           E7sus4           E
In our possessive coupling

                        B
So much could not be expressed

              E9          E
So now I am returning to myself

         F#7
These things that you and I suppressed

                               E9      E
I see something of myself in everyone

                             B
Just at this moment of the world

                      F#7sus4      F#
As snow gathers like bolts of lace

                  E9         E
Waltzing on a ballroom girl

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You know it never has been easy

E7sus4                E
Whether you do or you do not resign

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Whether you travel the breadth of extremities

                              B
Or stick to some straighter line

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Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock

E7sus4                                E
They're either going to thaw out or freeze

            E7sus4                     E
Listen, strains of Benny Goodman

                                   B
Coming through' the snow and the pinewood trees

           E7sus4             E
I'm porous with travel fever

                                      B
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own

                        E9             E
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger

 F#7
Can set up trembling in my bones

                                   E9        E
I know, no one's going to show me everything

                             B
We all come and go unknown

                      F#7sus4      F#
Each so deep and superficial

                               E9         E
Between the forceps and the stone

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Well, I looked at the granite markers

E7sus4                      E
Those tributes to finality, to eternity

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And then I looked at myself here

                                 B
Chicken scratching for my immortality

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In the church, they light the candles

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And the wax rolls down like tears

            E7sus4                     E
There is the hope and the hopelessness

                       B
I've witnessed thirty years

            E7sus4                         E
We're only particles of change I know, I know

                      B
Orbiting around the sun

                              E9      E
But how can I have that point of view

      F#7
When I'm always bound and tied to someone

                         E9      E
White flags of winter chimneys

                             B
Wave truce against the moon

                      F#7sus4      F#
In the mirrors of a modern bank

                     E9         E
From the window of a hotel room

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I'm traveling in some vehicle

E7sus4                E
I'm sitting in some cafe

E7sus4                 E
A defector from the petty wars

                       B
Until love sucks me back that way

C#m7  D6
(repeat to fade)