Joni Mitchell - Tax Free

tax free

| add9 | | [ ch ] Dm6/A [ /Ch ] | |

| G/A A | G/A | [ ch ] Dm6/A [ /Ch ] | |

Aadd9
front rooms back rooms

[ ch ] C#/F [ /Ch ]
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

[ ch ] C#/F [ /Ch ]
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!”

[ ch ] Dm6/F [ /Ch ] G/B
there’s evil in this land

“rock and roll music!” )

A/C#
“cast down these dope – fiends

D#m7 – 5
and there noisy bands!”
“damn their souls!”

Esus4 E
preacher preaching love like vengeance

[ ch ] Dsus4/E [ /Ch ] D/E
preaching love like hate

Esus4 E
calling for large donations

[ ch ] Dsus4/E [ /Ch ] D/E
promising es tates

Esus4 E
rolling lawns and angel bands

[ ch ] Dsus4/E [ /Ch ] D/E
behind the pearly gates

Esus4 E
he will have his in this life

[ ch ] Dsus4/E [ /Ch ] D
but yours will have to wait

add9
he’s immaculately tax free

( “mulitiple hundreds of thousands of . . . ” )

[ ch ] Dm6/F [ /Ch ] 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

[ ch ] C#/F [ /Ch ]
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

( “sxxually active” )

[ ch ] C#/F [ /Ch ]
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!

[ ch ] Dm6/F [ /Ch ] G/B
lord , there’s danger in this land

A/C#
you get witch – hunts and wars

D#m7 – 5
when church and state hold hands

fxxk it!

Esus4 E
tonight i’m going dancing

[ ch ] Dsus4/E [ /Ch ] D/E
with the drag queens and the punks

Esus4 E
big beat de liver me

[ ch ] Dsus4/E [ /Ch ] D/E
from this sanctimonious skunk

Esus4 E
we’re no flaming angels

[ ch ] Dsus4/E [ /Ch ] D
and he’s not heaven sent

Esus4 E
how can he speak for the prince of peace

[ ch ] Dsus4/E [ /Ch ] D/E
when he’s hawk – right militant

add9
and he’s immaculately

tax free

[ ch ] Dm6/A [ /Ch ]
( “our nation has lost its guts!” )

save me

G/A A
( “our nation has lost its strength” )

G/A A
tax free

[ ch ] Dm6/A [ /Ch ]
( “our nation has whimpered and cried” )

save me

add9
( “and petted the castros” )

tax free

[ ch ] Dm6/A [ /Ch ]
( “the khomeinis’ and the kaddAfis’” )

save me

G/A Aadd9
( “for so long” )

tax free

[ ch ] Dm6/A [ /Ch ]
( “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!”

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peter kruger
casparus60@yahoo . com