Hejira Chords by Joni Mitchell

[C#] _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ I'm traveling in some vehicle _ _
_ [A] _ I'm sitting in [E] some cafe _
A [A] defector from the [E] petty wars That shall [B] shove her away _ _ _ _ _
_ _ There's comfort [F#] in melancholy _
[E] _ [A] _ _ When there's [E] no need to explain
It's [A] just as natural as [E] the weather In this moody [B] sky today _ _ _
In [E] our possessive coupling _ _ So [B] much could not be _ expressed
So [F#] now I [E] am returning to myself [F#] _
These things that [E] you and I suppressed
[F#] _
_ [B] I [E] see something of myself in everyone Just at [B] this moment of the _ world
_ The snow [F#] gathers like bolts of lace [E] _ Waltzing on a ballroom girl
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_ _ _ _ [F#] _ You know it never has been [B] easy _ [E] Whether you do or you do not reside
[A] Whether you travel the breadth of [E] extremities Or step to some [B] straighter line _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] Now [B] here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock [E] _ [A] They're either gonna [E] thaw out or _ freeze
The [A] _
strains [E] of any good will examine The snow and the pinewood [B] trees _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] I'm porous with travel fever _ But you know I'm so [B] glad to be on my _ own _
Still [E] somehow the slightest touch of a [F#] stranger _ Can set a trembling [E] in my _ [G#] [F#] bones
[B]
I know [E] no one's gonna show me _ everything We [B] all come and go I know
_ _ Each so [F#] deep and superficial _ [E] Between [B] _
the forceps and the [E] stone _ _
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_ [B] _ [F#] But I look at the granite markers [E] _ [F#m] Those [A] tributes to [E] finality, to eternity
[Bm] And then I look at myself here [E] Chicken scratching for [B] my immortality _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ [F#] In the church they light the [B] candles _ [Bm] _ [A] And the wax [E] rolls down like tears
[F#] There is the [E] hope and the hopelessness I've witnessed [B] thirty years _ _
[E] They're only particles of change I know I know _
[B] Orbiting around the sun But _ how can I [E] have that point of view
_ [F#] When I'm always [E] bound and tied to someone [F#] _ White [E] flags of winter _ _ chimneys _
[B] Playing truce against the moon _ _ In [F#] the mirrors of a modern van
_ [E] _ _ [B]
From [E] the window of a hotel _ _ room _
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[F#] I'm [B] _ _ traveling in some vehicle _ [F#] _ _ Sitting [E] in some cafe
_ [A] I defected from the petty [E] wars But your [B] love set me right that way _ _ _
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[C#m] _ [D] _ [E] _ _ [C#m] _ [E] _ _ [Dm] _
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