Amelia chords by Joni Mitchell

Chords with lyrics

I have transcribed this song for ukulele, because I think it is one of the
greatest songs of all time and I wanted it to be accessible to average players.


    G+G    C majorC        G+G        Bb majorBb
I was driving across the burning desert, when I spotted six jet planes
     A minorAm        B minorBm        G+G    C majorC
Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain
              E minor 7Em7          B minorBm       A minorAm Am/C:
It was the hexagram of the heavens, it was the strings of my guitar
 FF          Bb majorBb   FF G+G C majorC FF G+G Bb majorBb
Amelia it was just a false alarm

   G+G    C majorC   G+G       Bb majorBb                 A minorAm
The drone of flying engines, is a song so wild and blue, it scrambles time
   B minorBm         G+G    C majorC               E minor 7Em7
And seasons if it gets thru to you, then your life becomes a travelogue
  B minorBm         A minorAm Am/C:  FF          Bb majorBb   FF G+G C majorC FF G+G Bb majorBb
Of picture post card charms,   Amelia it was just a false alarm

 G+G     C majorC     G+G         Bb majorBb
People will tell you where they've gone, they'll tell you where to go
          A minorAm     B minorBm       G+G    C majorC
But till you get there, yourself you never really know
               E minor 7Em7    B minorBm          A minorAm Am/C:
Where some have found their paradise, others just come to harm
   FF          Bb majorBb   FF G+G C majorC FF G+G Bb majorBb
Oh, Amelia it was just a false alarm

G+G      C majorC   G+G      Bb majorBb
I wish that he was here tonight, it's so hard to obey
      A minorAm   B minorBm       G+G  C majorC
His sad request of me to kindly stay away
         E minor 7Em7           B minorBm           A minorAm Am/C:
So this is how I hide the hurt, as the road leads cursed and charmed
     FF          Bb majorBb   FF G+G C majorC FF G+G Bb majorBb
I tell Amelia it was just a false alarm

  G+G   C majorC G+G         Bb majorBb               A minorAm
A augmentedA ghost of aviation, she was swallowed by the sky, or by the sea
   B minorBm       G+G    C majorC        E minor 7Em7      B minorBm       A minorAm Am/C:
Like me she had a dream to fly, like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms
 FF          Bb majorBb   FF G+G C majorC FF G+G Bb majorBb
Amelia it was just a false alarm

 G+G     C majorC   G+G      Bb majorBb                     A minorAm
Maybe I've never really loved, I guess that is the truth, I've spent my whole life
   B minorBm     G+G  C majorC             E minor 7Em7
In clouds at icy altitude, and looking down on everything,
  B minorBm       A minorAm Am/C: FF          Bb majorBb   FF G+G C majorC FF G+G Bb majorBb
I crashed into his arms,   Amelia it was just a false alarm

  G+G        C majorC    G+G     Bb majorBb
I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel, to shower off the dust
    A minorAm          B minorBm      G+G   C majorC
And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust
             E minor 7Em7      B minorBm    A minorAm Am/C:
I dreamed of seven forty sevens, over geometric farms
     FF    Bb majorBb        FF G+G C majorC FF G+G Bb majorBb
Dreams Amelia - dreams and false alarms

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