Slouching Towards Bethlehem Chords by Joni Mitchell

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_ _ [Bm] [F#m] Turning and turning _ _ within _ [D] _ the widening gyre.
_ _ [F#m] The falcon [D] cannot hear the falconer. _
_ _ _ [A] Things [F#m] fall apart, _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] the center cannot hold.
_ _ [Bm] And a [A] blood [Bm]-thin [D] tide is loosed upon the world.
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_ [Bm] Nothing is sacred, _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] the ceremony is soon.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ Innocence is drowned [D] in anarchy. _ _
_ [F#m] The best black conviction, _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ even sometimes it's a hoax.
_ [Bm] They're the worst, they're full of passion [D] without [Em] mercy.
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_ Surely some [A] revelation [Bm] is at hand.
[A] _ _ [Bm] _ Surely a consecutive coming [D] and the wrath has finally driven [A] _ [G] home.
Oh, this is the [A] feast, _ [Bm] [A] it's our welcome at last.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [A]
[Em] So tend to [B] earth, let the [A] heavenly children come. _
[Bm] _ _ [A] So tend to [D] earth, let the heavenly children come.
Born, born, _ _ _ born, [Gm] _ _ _ [D] _
born, _ [G] _ [D] _ to be born. _
_ Born, _ born, _ _ [Gm] born, _ _ [D] born, born. _
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_ [Bm] Hoping and hoping, _ _ _ _ _ [D] as if by my weak faith.
_ _ _ [Bm] The spirit of this [D] world would heal and rise
_ _ [Bm] Past all the _ shadows, _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ straddle and grief.
_ _ [Bm] And struggle in the darkness, [D] trouble in my eyes.
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[Bm] Shaped like a lion, _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ it has the head of a man.
_ _ _ [Bm] With a giz as blank, [D] a titillous and a son.
And [Bm] it's moving its slow _ _ _ thighs _ [D] across the dead of the sea.
_ _ _ [Bm] Through dark _ _ indignant, _ [G] _ [D] reeling falcons. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Surely some revelation is at hand.
[F#m] _
_ _ _ Surely a consecutive [D] coming and the wrath has finally driven home.
_ Oh, [G] this is [Am] the [D] feast, [Bm] it's our [A] welcome at last.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] So tend to earth, let the heavenly [Bm] children [A] come.
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_ [A] So tend to earth, [D] let the heavenly children _ come. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Born, [Gm] _ _ [D] _ born, _ [G] _ _ [D] born, born, to be born. _ _
Born, born, _ born, born, born, to be born.
The ship of a lion, _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] raging [F#m] and raging. _ _
_ [D] _ _ [A] It rises [D] from the deep, _ _ _ _ [B] opening [C#] its [Bm] eyes.
[D] After twenty _ centuries, _
_ [Bm] _ flexed to a nightmare. _
_ _ _ _ [D] Out of a stone we sleep.
_ _ By [F#] a rocking _
[B] cradle, by the [Em] sea of [D] Galilee. _ _
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Surely [A] some [D] revelation is at hand.
_ [F#m] _ _ Surely a consecutive coming [D] and the wrath has finally driven _ home.
[G] Oh, this is the [A] feast, [D] _ [Bm] it's our welcome at last.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] So tend to earth, let the heavenly [Bm] children come. _ _
_ [A] So tend to earth, [D] let the heavenly children _ _ _ come. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ Born, [D] _ _ _
[G] born, _ [D] born, born, to be born. _ _
Born, _ _ _ born, born, born, to _ [A#] [G] be born.
[D] The ship of a lion.
_ _ _ _ _ Born, born, _ _ born, [Gm] born, to be _ _ [D] _ born. _ _ _
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_ _ Born, born, born, born, to be _ born.
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