Chords for Tom Rush Performs "Urge for Going" 2010, Written by Joni Mitchell

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Let's do a Joni Mitchell song, _ _ _ _ don't you think?
_ Years and years and years ago.
I had the privilege
Of being the first guy to record Joni's
_ Joni's material _
and that came about
_ Because I was playing this little club in Detroit, Michigan a place called the chestnate _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ Which is run by a guy named _
_ _ _ Morrie
Morrie wooden bound one [C] _ of the weirdest people I've ever met and that's saying something _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Morrie Morrie was a chess genius and he was absolutely no good at all at anything else
_ And he'd opened this place to be a place to go and play chess and it somehow had turned into a music room and he
Was just totally unequipped to deal with that on any level _
He was married to a woman named Ethel _ and
I showed up one year.
I played there every year.
I showed up one year and he said Tom
Do you hear what Ethel did to me?
I said no Morrie.
What happened?
What? _
She died
_ _ _ That's awful.
She did that to you
_ And then I came back a year later and he'd remarried
_ another woman named Ethel _ _
_ Strikes me as odd
_ [Am] _ I just I [G] don't know that many women named [C] Ethel.
I guess Detroit would be the place to look for them
_ _ Anyway, Joni came in one night _
And I guess she just come [G] down from Toronto and she was trying to get established
And she asked Morrie if she could do a guest set so I could hear some of her [C] stuff
_ And she got up and did four tunes and just blew me away
_ And she later sent me some more [F] tunes on tape and [Gb] I I named my next album
_ _ [C] That's not
I'm gonna do _ _ _ [Gb] a little song.
She sang [C] that very first night _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Now woke up today and found
_ The frost perched on the town _ _ _ _ _ _
_ It hovered in a frozen [Bb] sky and gobbled [C] summer down _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ When [Eb] the Sun turns trader cold
[F] _ _ And [Eb] shivering trees are standing in [G] a naked row _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ And I get the urge for gold
She got the urge [Bb] for going _ _ _ _ [F] and I [C] never seem to go
_ _ _ _ _ And I get [F] the urge [C] for gold
_ When the meadow [F] grass [C] is turning brown _ _
[F] Summertime [C] is falling down _ _
[F] Winter [C] closing in _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And
I had a girl [Bb] in summertime with _ _ [C] summer colored skin
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And not another man in [Bb] town _ _ my [C] darling's heart could win _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ And
When the [Eb] leaves fell trembling down _ [F] _ _ and bully [Eb] winds did rub their [G] faces in the snow _ _ _
_ _ [C] She got the urge for [Bb] gold _
_ _ _ _ [C] And I had to let her go _
_ _ _ _ And she got the urge for [C] gold
_ When the [F] meadow grass [C] was turning brown _ _
[F] Summertime was [C] falling down _ _
[Bb] Winter [C] closing in _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Now the warriors [Bb] of winter _ _ _ _ give a [C] cold triumphant shout _ _ _ _ _ _
And all that stays is dying _ [Bb] _ _ _
and all that [C] lives is getting out _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ You see the [Eb] geese in Chevron flight
_ [F] _ _ [Eb] Flapping and erasing on before [G] the snow _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] They've got the [Bb] urge for going _
_ _ _ And they've got [C] the wings to _
_ _ _ And they get [F] the urge for gold
_ [C] When the [F] meadow grass [C] is turning brown _ _
[F] Summertime is [C] falling down _ _
[Bb] Winter [C] closing in _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ But I'll apply the [Bb] fire with kindling
_ _ _ _ [F] Pull the [C] blankets to my chin _ _ _ _ _ _
And I'll lock the vagrant winter [Bb] out _ _
And bolt [C] my wand room in _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ I'd like [Eb] to call back summertime
_ [F] _ _ And have her [Eb] stay _ for just [G] another month or so _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ She's got the [Bb] urge for gold
_ _ I guess [C] she'll have to go
_ _ _ _ _ And she gets the urge for gold
When the meadow grass is turning brown
And all her empires are falling down _
Winter [F] closing [C] in _ _ _ _
_ _ And I'd get the urge for gold
_ When the meadow [F] grass [C] is turning brown
_ _ [F] Summertime [C] is falling down
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _