Chords for Joni Mitchell - Shades Of Scarlet Conquering

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[G] _ [Am] _ Out of the fire [Bm] like [G] Catholic saints
[D] _ Comes [Am] Scarlet and her deep complaint
_ _ Mimicking _ [G] tenderness she sees
[D] _ In [Am] sentimental movies
_ _ _ [G] A [Bm] celluloid writer comes [Dm] to town
[C] Cinematic lovers [F] wait
_ _ _ Plantations [G] and sweeping _ [Am] ballroom gowns
_ [Em] Take a breath away
_ _ _ [Am] _ Out [Dm] in the [Bm] wind and pin [G] _ [D] legs
Chasing the [Em] ghosts of [Am] gable and flint
Through standing boys [Bm] and extra [G] players
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Magnolia's hopeful [Em] in her auburn _ haze
She comes [Bm] from a school of southern [Dm] charm
[G] She likes to have [C] things her _ way
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Any man in [G] the world holding out [Am] his arm
Would soon be made [Em] to fade _ _ _
[Am] Friends _ have told her not [G] so proud
_ [Em] _ Neighbors trying to sleep [Am] and yelling not so loud
_ _ Lovers in [G] anger, block of ice
_ [D] _ Harder and [B] harder just to re [G]-nice
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Bm] in the night, _ [Dm] dark [F] dreams
From [C] the dark things she feels
_ She [G] covers her eyes in the X [Am]-rated scenes
[Em] Running from the _ _ _ _ [Am] reels
Beauty and madness [Bm] [G] to be _ [Bm] praised
Cause it is not [Am] easy to be brave
To walk around [G] in so much need
_ [D] To carry the weight of all [Am] I'd bring _ _ _
Dressed in [Bm] stolen clothes she [Dm] stands
[G] Cast [C] iron and frail
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With her [G] _ impossibly gentle [Am] hands
And [Em] her blood red _ _ _ _ [Am] fingernails
Out of the fire [Bm] and still [G] smoldering
She [D] says, a woman must have [Am] everything _
_ Shades of [G] scarlet conquering
She [E] says, [F#] a woman must have [Am] everything
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