Refuge Of The Roads Chords by Joni Mitchell

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_ _ _ I met a [C] friend of spirit, _ _ _ [Gm] he [C] drank and womanized, and I sat before his sanity, I was [Am] [Bb] holding
back from crying.
[E] _ _ [F] _ _ [Dm] He saw [Am] my _ [Em] complications [Am] _ [Bb] and he _ [F] mirrored me [C] back, simplified, [Am] and [Bb] will our [F] _ [C] perfection
would _ [Bb] always be denied.
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ Heart and [C] humor and humility, [F] he said will lighten up your [C] heavy load, [F] _
[Em] I left him then
[Am] [Bb] for the refuge _ of _ [F] the [C] road. _ _
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_ _ _ [F] I _ fell in with [Em] some [Am] drifters, _ [Gm] _ _
[F] passed [C] upon a beach town, [Gm] when [F] Dixie [C] cold cats and [Bb] highway
hand me _ [F] downs, _ _ and I [Dm] wound up [C] fixing _ dinner for [Gm] _ _
[F] them in [C] Boston gym.
_ [Gm] I wound up with [F] affection, [C] _ thinking back [Bb] down the _ [F] roads to then.
_ [Bb] The _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] nets were _ _ overflowing, [F] in the God [C] Mexico, _ [F] they [Em] were _ [Am] overflowing, in [Bb] the refuge _ of _ [F] the [C] roads. _ _ _
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_ [F] There [Dm] were spring [Am] along [Em] the [C] ditches, _ [Gm] there were [F] good times in [C] the cities, _ [Gm] oh [F] radiant
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happiness, it was [Bb] all so light [F] and _ easy, [Dm] till I started [C] [Em] analyzing, _ _ [C] [Gm] and I brought [C] on
my old _ ways.
[Gm] A _ [F] thunderhead [C] of judgment was [F] [Bb] gathering in my gaze, [F] _ _
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_ and [C] it made most people nervous,
_ _ [F] they just didn't want to [C]
know, what [Em] I was seeing, [Am] [Bb] in the refuge _ _ _ _ [F] of the [C] roads.
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_ _ [F] _ I pulled up [C] into a forest, _ [Bb] crickets clicking [F] in the [C] _
ferns, [Bb] like a [F] wheel [C] of fortune, I heard
[Bb] my fate turn, turn, turn, [Am] and [Dm] I went running [C] down [Em] a white [C] sand road, [Gm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C]
running _ _ [Gm] _ [F] to [C] lose the
blues [Am] to the [Bb] _ innocence [F] in the earth.
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_ These [C] are the clouds of _ _ Michelangelo, _ [F] muscular with [C] gods and sun gold, shine [Em] on your witness,
[Am] in [Bb] the refuge _ of _ [F] _ [C] the roads.
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_ _ _ [F] [Dm] In a highway [Em] service station, [C] _ _ [Bb] over [F] the [C] month of June, _ [Bb] was a photograph [Am] [C] of the earth, taken
[Bb] calm and back from [F] the moon, and you [Dm] couldn't [C] see [Em] the city, _ [C] [Gm] on that mild [F] _ [C] _
bowling ball, [Gm] or
a forest [F] [C] or a highway, or me [Bb] at least of all, [F] _ _
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[Bb] you couldn't [C] see these cold water restrooms,
or this [F] _ baggage [C]
overload, westbound and holding, [Bb] taking refuge _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] in the road.
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