Joni Mitchell – Not To Blame (Guitar)

B
The story hit the news

               E    A E
From coast to coast

B
They said you beat the girl

               E
You loved the most

F#m7             A
Your charitable acts

                E    A E
Seemed out of place

           F#m7
With the beauty

           A                 E    A E
With your fist marks on her face

G#m                    B
Your buddies all stood by

                 A
They bet their fortunes

               E A
And their fame

B
That she was out of line

              E
And you were not to blame

B
Six hundred thousand doctors

                        E      A E
Are putting on rubber gloves

B
And they're poking

                         E
At the miseries made of love

                   F#m7
They say they're learning

        A                 E     A E
How to spot the battered wives

F#m7            A
Among all the women

                                  E     A E
They see bleeding through their lives

G#m                     B
I bleed for your perversity

        A                    E
These red words that make a stain

          A            E
On your white-washed claim that

B
She was out of line

              E
And you were not to blame

B
I heard your baby say

                    E   A E
When he was only three

B
"Daddy let's get some girls

                E
One for you and one for me"

F#m7                A              E   A E
His mother had the frailty you despise

         F#m7             A          E   A E
And the looks you love to drive to suicide

G#m                B
Not one wet eye around

      A              E  A E
Her lonely little grave

      B
Said "He was out of line girl

                 E
You were not to blame"