Joni Mitchell – Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Guitar)

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[Intro] D7 G Gm D D7 G Gm D [Verse 1]
Bm
Turning and turning

G                  D
Within the widening gyre

Bm                A      G       D
The falcon cannot hear the falconer

Bm
Things fall apart

    G             D
The center cannot hold

      Bm           G
And a blood dimmed tide

     A               D
Is loosed upon the world

Bm
Nothing is sacred

G            D
The ceremony sinks

Bm            A
Innocence is drowned

G         D
In anarchy

    Bm          
The best lack conviction

A                   D
Given some time to think

        Bm                  G
And the worst are full of passion

        A   D
Without mercy
[Refrain]
G                D           Bm
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
                  A              D
And the wrath has finally taken form

G                       A
For what is this rough beast

                  Bm               
Its hour come at last

A                             D
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born

A                                 
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born
[Interlude] D7 G Gm D D7 G Gm D [Verse 2]
Bm
Hoping and hoping

   G                 D
As if by my weak faith

Bm                  A
The spirit of this world

       G       D      
Would heal and rise

Bm
Vast are the shadows

     G            D
That straddle and strafe

   Bm               A
And struggle in the darkness

G             D
Troubling my eyes

Bm
Shaped like a lion

           G         D
It has the head of a man

       Bm       A
With a gaze as blank

    G               D
And pitiless as the sun

         Bm 
And it's moving its slow thighs

           G       D
Across the desert sands

         Bm        A
Through dark indignant

    G         D
Reeling falcons
[Refrain]
G                D           Bm
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
                  A              D
And the wrath has finally taken form

G                       A
For what is this rough beast

Bm               A
Its hour come at last

A                              D
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born

A                               
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born
[Interlude] D7 G Gm D D7 G Gm D [Verse 3]
Bm
Raging and raging

    G              D
It rises from the deep

Bm 
Opening its eyes

A        G         D
After twenty centuries

Bm
Vexed to a nightmare

A        G       D
Out of a stony sleep

Bm            A
By a rocking cradle

G             D
By the Sea of Galilee
[Refrain]
G                D           Bm
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
                  A              D
And the wrath has finally taken form

G                       A
For what is this rough beast

Bm               A
Its hour come at last

A                             D
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born

A                             
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born
[Outro] D7 G Gm D D7 G Gm D