Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)
EDITH AND THE KINGPIN
Joni Mitchell
I would not disagree with Howard Wright, and disagree ever so slightly with
version 2, but this is how I play it.
It is a bit easier and more simple to play on piano or Guitar and Bass
INTRO – 
Cm7Cm7 / 
AbAb maj7 / Bb2 add 6 / Cm7Cm7 Repeat
Cm7Cm7
The big man arrives
Gm7sus4 AbAb
Disco dancers greet him
Cm7/F
Plainclothes cops greet him
Bb majorBb
Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening
Cm7Cm7
Sophomore jive
Gm7sus4 AbAb
From victims of typewriters
Cm7/F
The band sounds like typewriters
C majorC
The big man he's not listening Ooh Ooh etc
AbAb
His eyes hold Edith
G7G7
His left hand holds his right
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
What does that hand desire
G7G7
That he grips it so tight
Edith in the ring
The passed-over girls are conferring
The man with the diamond ring is purring
All claws for now withdrawn
One by one they bring
His renegade stories to her
His crimes and his glories to her
In challenge they look on
Women he has taken grow old too soon
He tilts their tired faces
Gently to the spoon
Edith in his bed
A augmentedA plane in the rain is humming
The wires in the walls are humming
Some song-some mysterious song
Bars in her head
Beating frantic and snowblind
Romantic and snowblind
She says-his crime belongs
Edith and the Kingpin
Each with charm to sway
Are staring eye to eye
They dare not look away
You know they dare not look away
CODA Cm7Cm7 / AbAb maj7 / Bb2 add 6 / Cm7Cm7 Repeat
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