Joni Mitchell : Court And Spark

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Love came to my door with a sleeping roll

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And a madman's soul, he thought for sure I'd seen him

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Dancing up a river in the dark

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Looking for a woman to court and spark

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He was playing on the sidewalk for passing change

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When something strange happened, glory train passed through him

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So he buried the coins he made in People's Park

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And went looking for a woman to court and spark

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It seemed like he read my mind

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He saw me mistrusting him and still acting kind

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He saw how I worried sometimes

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I worry sometimes

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All the guilty people, he said, they've all seen the stain

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On their daily bread, on their christian names

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I cleared myself, I sacrificed my blues

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A/e

And you could complete me, I'd complete you

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His eyes were the colour of the sand and the sea

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And the more he talked to me, you know, the more he reached me

Gmaj9

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But I couldn't let go of LA

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City of the fallen angels

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Help me, I think I'm falling in love again

Gmaj7

Fmaj7

When I get that crazy feeling I know I'm in trouble again I'm in trouble, 'cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking ladies man

Cmaj7

Gmaj7

And you love your lovin'

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Not like you love your freedom Help me, I think I'm falling in love too fast It's got me hoping for the future and worrying about the past 'Cause I've seen some hot, hot blazes come down in smoking ash We love our lovin' Not like we love our freedom

Gmaj7

Didn't it feel good, just sitting there talking Or lying there not talking, didn't it feel good?

Fmaj7

You danced with the lady with a hole in her stocking Didn't it feel good? Didn't it feel good?

Dmaj7

Gmaj7

Didn't it feel good? Didn't it feel good? Didn't it feel good? Didn't it feel good? Help me, I think I'm falling in love with you Are you going to make me go there by myself? That's such a lonely thing to do Both of us flirting around, flirting, and flirting, hurting, too Not like we love our freedom

Tuning: CGEEBE

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Help me, I think I'm falling in love again

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When I get that crazy feeling I tell myself, Joni, you're in trouble again You're in trouble, 'cause he's a rambler and a gambler And a boogie woogie man

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Cmaj7

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Don't he love his lovin'?

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And don't he love his freedom? |

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| Help me, I think I'm falling in love too fast It's got me hoping for the future and worrying about the past 'Cause I've seen some hot, hot blazes Come down to cold, cold ash Because we love our lovin' And we love our freedom

Gmaj7

Didn't it feel good, we were sitting there talking Or lying there not talking, didn't it feel good?

Fmaj7

You danced with the lady with a hole in her stocking Didn't it feel good? Didn't it feel good?

Dmaj7

Gmaj7

Didn't it feel good? Didn't it feel good?

Dmaj7

Gmaj7

Didn't it feel good? Didn't it feel good? (

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) Help me, I think I'm falling in love with you Are you going to make me go there by myself? That's such a lonely thing to have to do Both of us flirting around, flirting and flirting and hurting, too Because we love our lovin' And we love our freedom, freedom, freedom |

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Help me, I think I'm fallin'

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The way I see it he said you just can't win it

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Everybody's in it for their own gain, you can't please them all

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There's always somebody calling you down

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I do my best and I do good business

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There's a lot of people asking for my time

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They're tryin' to get ahead

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They're tryin' to be a good friend of mine

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I was a free man in Paris

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I felt unfettered and alive

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There was nobody callin' me up for favours

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And no one's future to decide

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You know I'd go back there tomorrow

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But for the work I've taken on

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Stokin' the star maker machinery behind the popular songs |

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I deal in dreamers and telephone screamers

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Lately I wonder what I do it for, if I had my way

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I'd just walk through those doors and wander

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Down the Champs Elysee

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Going cafe to cabaret thinking

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How I'd feel when I find

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That very good friend of mine

F/c

I was a free man in Paris

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I felt unfettered and alive

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Nobody callin' me up for favours

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And no one's future to decide

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You know I'd go back there tomorrow

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But for the work I've taken on

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Stokin' the star maker machinery behind the popular songs |

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All the people at this party They've got a lot of style

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They've got stamps of many countries They've got passport smiles

Bm7

Some are friendly, some are cutting

Em7

Some are watching it from the wings

D/a

A7sus4

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Some are standing in the center

A7sus4

Giving to get something

Dmaj9

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Photo beauty gets attention

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Then her eye paint's running down

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She's got a rose in her teeth And a lampshade crown

Bm7

One minute she's so happy

Em7

Then she's crying on someone's knee

D/a

A7sus4

Saying, "Laughing and crying

D/a

A7sus4

You know, it's the same release"

Dmaj9

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I told you when I met you I was crazy

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Cry for us all, beauty

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Cry for Eddie in the corner Thinking he's nobody

Bm7

And Jack behind his joker

Em7

And stone-cold Grace behind her fan

D/a

A7sus4

D/a

And me in my frightened silence

A7sus4

Thinking I don't understand

Dmaj9

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I feel like I'm sleeping

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Can you wake me?

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You seem to have a broader sensibility

Bm7

I'm just living on nerves and feelings

Em7

With a weak and a lazy mind

D/a

A7sus4

D/a

And coming to people's parties

A7sus4

Fumbling deaf, dumb, and blind

Dmaj9

I wish I had more sense of humor

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Keeping the sadness at bay

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Throwing the lightness on these things

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Laughing it all away Laughing it all away Laughing it all away

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Laughing it all away

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Again and again the same situation

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For so many years

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Tethered to a ringing telephone

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In a room full of mirrors

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A pretty girl in your bathroom

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Checking out her sex appeal

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I asked myself when you said you loved me

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"Do you think this can be real?"

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Still I sent up my prayer

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Wondering where it had to go

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With heaven full of astronauts

F#m7

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And the Lord on death row

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Bm7

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While the millions of his lost and lonely ones

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Call out and clamor to be found

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Caught in the struggle for higher positions

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And their search for love

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It sticks around

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You've had lots of lovely women

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Now you turn your gaze to me

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Weighing the beauty and the imperfection

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To see if I'm worthy

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Like the church, like a cop, like a mother

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You want me to be truthful

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Sometimes you turn it on me like a weapon, though

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Am

And I need your approval

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Still I sent up my prayer

D/e

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Wondering who's there to hear

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D/a

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I said, "Send me somebody

F#m7

D/g

Who's strong and somewhat sincere"

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Bm7

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With the millions of the lost and lonely ones

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D/g

I called out to be released

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Caught in my struggle for higher achievements

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And my search for love

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It don't seem to cease

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I've been sitting up waiting for my sugar to show

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I've been listening to the sirens and the radio

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He said he'd be over three hours ago

E7sus4

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I've been waiting for his car on the hill

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He makes friends easy, he's not like me

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I watch for judgement anxiously

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Now, where in the city can that boy be?

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Waiting for a car, climbing, climbing, climbing the hill

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He's a real good talker, I think he's a friend

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Fast tires come screaming around the bend

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But there's still no buzzer, they roll on

E7sus4

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And I'm waiting for his car on the hill

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It always seems so righteous at the start

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When there's so much laughter, when there's so much spark

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When there's so much sweetness in the dark

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Waiting for a car, climbing, climbing, climbing the hill

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Everything comes and goes

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Marked by lovers and styles of clothes

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Things that you held high and told yourself were true

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Lost or changin' as the days come down to you

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Down to you, constant stranger

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You're a kind person, you're a cold person too

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Dm7

It's down to you

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You go down to the pick-up station Cravin' warmth and beauty

Dm7

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You settle for less than fascination A few drinks later you're not so choosy

Dm7

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When the closing lights strip off the shadows On this strange new flesh you found

Dm7

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Clutching the night to you like a fig leaf You hurry to the blackness and the blankets

A7sus4

To lay down an impression and your loneliness

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D/g

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In the morning there are lovers in the street, they look so high

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You brush against a stranger and you both apologize

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Old friends seem indifferent, you must have brought that on

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Old bonds have broken down, love is gone

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Oh, love is gone

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Written on your spirit the sad song

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D/g

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Love is gone

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Everything comes and goes

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Pleasure moves on too early

G/a

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And trouble leaves too slow

D/g

Just when you're thinkin'

F#m7

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F#m7

You've finally got it made

E/f#

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Bad news comes knockin' at your garden gate

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D/g

Knockin' for you, constant stranger

G/a

You're a brute, you're an angel

Bm7

You can crawl, you can fly too

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It's down to you

D/a

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Esus4

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It all comes down to you

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I'm always running behind the time

G7sus4

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Just like this train

F7

Shaking into town

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With the brakes complaining

D/c

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I used to count lovers like railroad cars I counted them on my side

F7

Am7

Lately I don't count on nothing

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I just let things slide

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F/g

The station master's shuffling cards

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Box cars are banging in the yards Jealous lovin' will make you crazy If you can't find your goodness

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'Cause you lost your heart

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I went looking for a cause Or a strong cat without claws

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Or any reason to resume

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F7

And I found this empty seat

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In this crowded waiting room

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Everybody waiting

D/c

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Old man sleeping on his bags Women with that teased-up kind of hair

F7

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Kids with the jitters in their legs

C

And those wide, wide open stares

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And the kids got Cokes and chocolate bars

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There's a thin man smoking a fat cigar Jealous lovin' will make you crazy If you can't find your goodness

F7

D9

'Cause you lost your heart

Gm7

What are you gonna do now?

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You've got no one to give your love to

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Well, I've got this berth And this roll-down blind

D/c

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I've got this fold-up sink

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F7

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And these rocks and cactuses going by

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And a bottle of German wine to drink

D/c

C

Settle down into the clickety-clack With the clouds and the stars to read

F7

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Dreaming of the pleasure I'm gonna have

C

Watching your hairline recede My vain darling

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Watching your hair and clouds and stars I'm rocking away in a sleeping car This jealous loving's bound to make me crazy

F7

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I can't find my goodness, I lost my heart

Gm7

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Oh, sour grapes, because I lost my heart

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Tuning: CGCGCE (Open C)

He was sittin' in the lounge of the empire hotel He was drinkin' for diversion, he was thinkin' for himself A little money ridin' on the maple leafs Along comes this lady in sleeves She says

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Let me sit down, you know

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Drinkin' alone's a shame It's a shame, it's a cryin' shame

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Look at those jokers glued to that damn hockey game

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Hey, honey, you got lots of cash Bring us round a bottle and we'll have some laughs

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Gin's what I'm drinkin', I was raised on robbery She says

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I'm a pretty good cook, sittin' on my groceries

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Come up to my kitchen, I'll show you my best recipes

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I try and I try, but I can't save a cent I'm up after midnight cookin' tryin' to make my rent

Bb

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I'm rough but I'm pleasin', I was raised on robbery

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We had a little money once

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They were pushin' through a four lane highway

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Government gave us three thousand dollars

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C

You shoulda seen it fly away

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First he bought a fifty-seven Biscayne, he put it in the ditch He drunk up all the rest, that son of a bitch

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His blood's bad whiskey, I was raised on robbery

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You know you ain't bad lookin'

C

I like the way you hold your drinks

G

Come home with me honey

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C

I ain't askin' for no full-length mink

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Hey, where you goin'? Don't go yet, your glass ain't empty and we just met

Bb

You're mean when you're loaded

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I was raised on robbery

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Up in the sterilized room

Am7

Where they let you be lazy

F7

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Knowing your attitudes are wrong

Am7

And you gotta change, and it's not easy

F7

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Dragons shining with all values known

F7

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Dazzling you, keeping you from your own

F7

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Where is the lion in you to defy him

Am7

When you're this weak and this spacey?

D/c

So what are you gonna do about it

C

Am7

You can't live life and you can't leave it

F7

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Advice and religion you can't take it

Am7

You can't seem to believe it

F7

G

The peacock is afraid to parade

F7

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G

C

You're under the thumb of a maid

F7

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You really can't give love in this condition

Am7

Still you know how you need it

C

G7/b

Then open and close you

Am7

Then they talk like they know you

G

They don't know you

C

G7/b

They're friends and they're foes too, trouble child

G/d

Dsus4

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Breaking like the waves at Malibu

Bb

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D/c

So why does it come as such a shock

C

Am7

To know you really have no one?

F7

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Only a river of changing faces

Am7

Looking for an ocean

F7

G

They trickle through your leaky plans

F7

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Another dream over the dam

C

F7

And you're lying in some room

C

Am7

Feeling like your right to be human

G

Is going over too

C

G7/b

But some are gonna knock you

Am7

And some 'll try and clock you

G

You know it's really hard

C

G7/b

To talk sense to you, trouble child

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Breaking like the waves at Malibu

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My analyst told me that I was right out of my head

D9

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The way he described it, he said I'd be better dead than live I didn't listen to his jive

D9

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I knew all along that he was all wrong

Em7

And I knew that he thought

A7

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Bm7

Em7

I was crazy but I'm not, oh, no

A7

D9

G9

My analyst told me that I was right out of my head

D9

He said I need treatment but I'm not that easily led

G9

He said I was the type that was most inclined

D9

B7

When out of his sight to be out of my mind

Em7

And he thought I was nuts

A7

D

Bm7

Em7

No more ifs or ands or buts

D9

G9

They say as a child I appeared a little bit wild

D9

G9

With all my crazy ideas, but I knew what was happening, I knew I was a genius

D9

B7

What's so strange when you know

Em7

That you're a wizard at three?

A7

D

Bm7

Em7

I knew that this was meant to be

A7

D9

G9

Now I heard little children were supposed to sleep tight

D9

That's why I got into the vodka one night

G9

My parents got frantic, didn't know what to do

D9

But I saw some crazy scenes before I came to

B7

Em7

Now do you think I was crazy?

A7

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Bm7

Em7

I may have been only three but I was swingin'

A7

D9

G9

They all laughed at A. Graham Bell, they all laughed at Edison

D9

And also at Einstein

G9

So why should I feel sorry if they just couldn't understand

D9

The idiomatic logic that went on in my head?

B7

I had a brain, it was insane

Em7

Oh, they used to laugh at me

A7

D7

B7

When I refused to ride on all those double-decker buses

Em7

A7

D

G9

A7

B7

Em7

All because there was no driver at the top

A7

D9

G9

My analyst told me that I was right out of my head

D9

But I said, dear doctor, I think that it's you instead

G9

Because I have got a thing that's unique and new

D9

B7

To prove it I'll have the last laugh on you

Em7

A7

D7

'Cause instead of one head, I got two And you know two heads are better than one

Joni Mitchell : Court And Spark
1974

Court And Spark

Help Me

Free Man In Paris

People's Parties

Same Situation

Car On A Hill

Down To You

Just Like This Train

Raised On Robbery

Trouble Child

Twisted

Joni Mitchell : Court And Spark 1974

Court And Spark

Help Me

Free Man In Paris

People's Parties

Same Situation

Car On A Hill

Down To You

Just Like This Train

Raised On Robbery

Trouble Child

Twisted

Joni Mitchell : Court And Spark
1974