Joni Mitchell – Tax Free (Ukulele)

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Chords

| Add9 | |Dm6/A | | |G/A A | G/A |Dm6/A | |
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

                              A
Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!"

        Dm6/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!"
         Esus4               E
Preacher preaching love like vengeance

Dsus4/E                    D/E
       Preaching love like hate

Esus4                       E
       Calling for large donations

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
But        yours will have to wait
Add9 He's immaculately tax free ("Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ...")
Dm6/F             Add9
       Tax free
("Hundreds and millions of dollars")
          G/A   A
Tax free

                              E/F#
("A hundred billion dollars!
And who is paying the price? Who, who ("Your children are")
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 grandstands
Different clothes ("Pot in their pockets!") Different hair ("Sexually active")
C#/F
     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 adore---ME!

              Dm6/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!
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
        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 militant
Add9 And he's immaculately tax free
Dm6/A
       ("Our nation has lost its guts!")
Save me
G/A   A
         ("Our nation has lost its strength")

G/A  A
Tax free

Dm6/A
          ("Our nation has whimpered and cried")
Save me Add9 ("And petted the Castros") Tax free
Dm6/A
     ("The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'")
Save me
G/A  Aadd9
          ("For so long")
Tax free
Dm6/A
     ("That we don't know how to act like a man")

         E/F#
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!" Transcription and chart Peter Kruger [email protected]