Joni Mitchell – Tax Free (Guitar)

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Chords

|Aadd9              |Aadd9              |Bm7-5/A            |Bm7-5/A           |
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|G/A       A        |G/A       A        |Bm7-5/A            |Bm7-5/A           | 
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[Verse 1]
         Aadd9
               Front rooms Back rooms

         C#/F
               Slide into tables
Crowd into bathrooms
           F#9
               Joke around Cheap talk

           A/G                                       Aadd9
               Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock
Crawl home,Lie down
          C#/F          
              Teeth chatter Heart pounds

          F#9
              I don't feel so good I don't feel so good

          A/G
              Push a button to escape
[Pre-Chorus]
                              A
              Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!"

                      Bm7-5/F           G/B
              There's evil in this land     ("Rock and roll music!")                                         

                   A/C#
             "Cast down these dope-fiends

                       Ebm7-5
             And there noisy bands! ("Damn their souls!")
[Chorus]
                      Esus4               E
             Preacher preaching love like vengeance

     Dsus4/E                     D/E
             Preaching love like hate

      Esus4                         E
             Calling for large dona tions

     Dsus4/E              D/E
             Promising es tates

       Esus4                   E
             Rolling lawns and angel bands

     Dsus4/E                   D/E
             Behind the pearly gates

      Esus4                   E
             He will have his in this life

                 Dsus4/E                   D/E
             But        yours will have to wait
[Post chorus]
                           Aadd9                                                 Bm7-5/F
             He-e-e-e's im maculately tax free ("Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ...")
Tax free ("Hundreds and millions of dollars")
       Aadd9          G/A   A                              E/F#
             Tax free        ("A hundred billion dollars!

                                                     Aadd9
            ( And who is paying the price? Who, who "Your children are")
[Verse 2]
       Aadd9
            Pissed off, Jacked up

      C#/F
           Scream into the mike

                                F#9
           Spit into the loving cup
Strut like a rooster, march like a man
      A/G
           God's hired hands and the devil bands

                                  Aadd9
           Packing the same grand stands

                                                                    C#/F
           Different clothes("Pot in their pockets!") Different hair    ("Sexually active")
Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air
       F#9
           Theatre of anguish
Theatre of glory
       A/G
           God's hired hands and the devil bands

                            Aadd9
           Oh come let us a dore---ME!
[Pre-chorus]
                        Bm7-5/F        G/B
          Lord, there's danger in this land

                        A/C#
          You get witch-hunts and wars

                          Ebm7-5
          When church and state hold hands, Fuck it
[Chorus]
    Esus4                  E
         Tonight I'm going dancing

                  Dsus4/E             D/E
         With the drag queens and the punks

   Esus4             E
         Big beat de liver me

                   Dsus4/E       D/E
         From this sanctimonious skunk

   Esus4                  E
         We're no flaming angels

 Dsus4/E                     D/E
         And he's not heaven sent

   Esus4                          E
         How can he speak for the Prince of Peace

                   Dsus4/E         D/E
         When he's hawk-right mili tant
[Finale]
            Aadd9                        
         He-e-e-e's immaculately tax free

  Bm7-5/A
         ("Our nation has lost its guts!")Save me

G/A    Aadd9
            ("Our nation has lost its strength") Tax free            

Bm7-5/A
         ("Our nation has whimpered and cried") save me

    Aadd9
         ("And petted the Castros") Tax free

   Bm7-5/A
         ("The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'") Save me

G/A  Aadd9
          ("For so long") Tax free

   Bm7-5/A                                                       E/F# ...............
          ("That we don't know how to act like a man") Save me
"I think that we should turn the United States Marines loose on that little island south of Florida and stop that problem!" "I am preachin' love, I am!"