Chords for Joni Mitchell - Cherokee Louise (live @ Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum)

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_ _ This takes place in another bridge in Saskatoon, this time the Broadway Bridge.
_ _ And I have to go back to about _ _ five years after the cowboy phase.
_ _ _ I had a best girlfriend when I moved from the town that _ that was taken in,
from North Battle Creek, Saskatchewan, to Saskatoon, which was the closest thing we had to a big city up there.
The Paris of the North, the city of bridges.
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The Broadway Bridge was a big concrete span bridge, and the boys did their youth rights there.
You had to crawl across it on your belly from one side to the other.
And the river was wide like the Mississippi, so it took some daring.
Some places you'd be crawling through pigeon shit and God knows what else.
Total darkness, foul, acrid-smelling places, and never knowing when you could crawl on your knees again.
You'd be slithering along, and then, oh, you could crawl on your knees, and then, oh, in the middle you could stand up.
_ I had a girlfriend who got _ _ misunderstood in the community, _ basically because of her genetics.
She was an Indian kid in a foster home.
This is her story. _ _ _
Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel [C] in the Broadway Bridge. _ _
_ _ We are [Am] crawling on our knees.
We've got chocolates and cheese.
[G] We've got [C]
cold cuts from the fridge. _ _ _
[D] Last year about this time, we used to climb up in the [C] branches just [G] to sway there in [F] some breeze.
Now the cops [A] on the street, they want poor _ [G] Cherokee _ [C] Louise. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] People like the talk-tongues are wagging over fences, [C] _ wagging over _ phones.
_ _ _ Oh, and [Am] all the doors are locked.
God, she can't come to our [C] house, but I know where she'll go. _
_ _ To [B] the place [D] where you can stand and press your hands like it was bubble [C] bath and dust piled high as me.
Down under [A] the street, my friend, poor [G] _
Cherokee _ Louise.
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[F] Ever since we turned 13, it's like [Am] a minefield.
Walking to the door, _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ rolling out, you get the [A] third degree.
Coming in, you get [C] the third World War.
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_ Tuesday after school, we put our dandies on the rails.
[C] Oh, and when the train rolled by, _ _ _ _ we'd be [Am] jumping around like fools.
Going, look, no heads or tails.
[C] Going, look, my lucky _ [F] prize.
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[D] _ _ runs home to her foster [A] daddy, opens up a zipper, honey, [F] yanks her to her knees.
[A] Oh, please be here, please, my friend, [C] poor _ _ [G] Cherokee Louise.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] Cherokee Louise is hiding [C] in this tunnel in the Broadway Bridge. _ _ _ _ _
_ We are [A] crawling on our knees.
We've got Archie and Silver Screen.
We got [C] cold cuts from the fridge.
_ _ _ _ [D] Last year about this time, we used to climb up in the branches just [C] to sway there [F] in some breeze.
Now the [C] cops on the [D] street, they want poor _ Cherokee _ Louise.
_ [C] _ _ _ Cherokee _ _ [Am] Louise. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Cherokee Louise.
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