Joni Mitchell – Off Night Backstreet (Guitar)

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Bbsus2 113311 Bbsus4 111331 [Intro] Cm F7 Cm F7 Cm F7 [Verse 1]
Cm7                                                 Cm
Maybe I'm just kidding myself when I say I love you

          G/B
I don't know

Bbsus4
Loving without trusting

         Cm                 F7
You get frostbite and sunstroke

Bbsus2
I wish I felt nothing

Fm           Cmaj7                         Bbsus4
You pimp - laughing and strutting her to my chartered seat

                    Cm          F7
Your old off night back street
[Interlude] Cm F7 Cm F7 [Verse 2]
Cm7
It's been stinger to stinger darling

Cm                   G/B
It's been heart to heart

Bbsus4
You still keep me from finishing

     Cm         F7
Any new love I start

Bbsus2
Now she's moved in with you

Fm                  Cmaj7
She's keeping your house neat

          Bbsus4
And your sheets sweet

                        Cm         F7
And I'm your off night back street
[Interlude] Cm F7 Cm F7 [Bridge]
Cm         G/B         F
I can feel your fingers

            Bbsus4
Feeling my face

Fm              Cmaj7
There are some lines you put there

         Bbsus2
And some you erase
[Verse 3]
Cm7
Maybe I'm just dramatizing

Cm          G/B
I don't care

Bbsus4
It's home it can be heaven

      Cm         F7
When we play fair

Bbsus2
But these sentimental journeys

Fm
Late at night

Cmaj7                           Bbsus4
High in some back room you're calling me

                      Cm         F7
To be your off night back street
[Interlude] Cm F7 Cm F7 [Bridge]
Cm                  G/B
You give me such pleasure

F                  Bbsus4
You bring me such pain

Fm            Cmaj7
Who left her long black hair

                 Bbsus2
In our bathtub drain?
[Outro] Cm F7 Cm F7 Cm F7 Cm F7 Cm F7