Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 15:59:15 -1000
Tabbed by Howard Wright H.Wright@uk.ac.cf.astro
tidied: Harlan L Thompson
HEJIRA- Joni Mitchell
TUNING: C G D F G C or D A E G A D
INTRO:
Dm11
C---------------------------------------0----------
G---------------------------------------0----------
F---------0------------0------------0---------0----
D-------2----2-------2----2-------2---2-----2------
G-----2------------2------------2------------------
C--2------------2------------2---------------------
Eb6/9
C-------------------------------------------0--------
G-------------------------------------------0--------
F----------0-------------0------------0----------0--- (repeat)
D-------3----3--------3----3-------3-----3-----3-----
G-----3-------------3------------3-------------------
C--3-------------3------------3----------------------
C6/9 Fsus2add4 F
I`m travelling in some vehicle, sitting in some cafe
Fsus2add4 F C
A defector from the petty wars that shell shock love away
C6/9 Fsus2add4 F
There`s comfort in melancholy, when there`s no need to explain
Fsus2add4 F C
It`s just as natural as the weather in this moody sky today
Fadd9 C
In our possessive coupling so much could not be expressed
Fadd9 Gadd9add4 G9add4
So now I am returning to myself these things that you and I supressed
Gadd9add4 Fadd9 C
I see something of myself in everyone, just at this moment of the world
Gadd9add4 Fadd9
As snow gathers like bolts of lace, waltzing on a ballroom girl
Dm11 Eb6/9
You know it never has been easy whether you do or you do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities or stick to some straighter line
Now here`s a man and a woman sitting on a rock
They`re either going to thaw out or freeze
Listen... strains of Benny Goodman coming through the snow and the pinewood trees
I`m porous with travel fever but you know I`m so glad to be on my own
Still sometimes the slightest touch of a stranger can set up trembling in my bones
I know no one`s going to show me everything we all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial, between the forceps and the stone
Well I looked at the granite markers, those tributes to finality, to eternity
And then I looked at myself here, chicken scratching for my immortality
In the church they light the candles and the wax rolls down like tears
There is the hope and the hopelessness, I`ve witnessed thirty years
We`re only particles of changes I know, I know orbiting around the sun
But how can I have that point of view when I`m always bound and tied to someone
White flags of winter chimneys waving trace against the moon
In the mirrors of a modern bank from the window of a hotel room
I`m travelling in some vehicle, I`m sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars until love suck me back that way
CHORDS:
Dm11: 222000 Eb6/9: 333000 C6/9: 002222 Fsus2add4: 555555
F: 557755 C: 002200 Fadd9: 555400 Gadd9add4: 777600 G9add4: 777000
NOTE: Once again, thanks to Howard Wright. I`m just tidying up his
version so it could fit onto one page in my guitar book.
