Hejira chords by Joni Mitchell

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

• Capo on 4th
• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Verse 1:
G+G
 I'm traveling in some vehicle
C majorC
 I'm sitting in some cafe
FF             C majorC
A augmentedA defector from the petty wars
      G+G
That shell shock love away
    G+G           FF
There's comfort in melancholy
C majorC
When there's no need to explain
              FF
It's just as natural as the weather
         G+G
In this moody sky today
    C majorC
In our possessive coupling
         G+G       D MajorD
So much could not be expressed
    C majorC        D MajorD
So now I'm returning to myself
    D MajorD
These things that you and I suppressed
     C majorC
I see something of myself in everyone
       G+G
Just at this moment of the world
           D MajorD
As snow gathers like bolts of lace
       C majorC
Waltzing on a ballroom girl

A minorAm FF Bb majorBb

🎸 Verse 2:
D MajorD                 G+G
 You know it never has been easy
C majorC
 Whether you do or you do not resign
      FF          C majorC
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
         G+G
Or stick to some straighter line
               G+G         C majorC
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
FF             C majorC
 They're either going to thaw out or freeze
              C majorC
Listen ... Strains of Benny Goodman
                FF
Coming through the snow and the pinewood trees
  C majorC
I'm porous with travel fever
                G+G
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
         C majorC
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
D MajorD
Can set up trembling in my bones
   C majorC
I know no one's going to show me everything
        G+G
We all come and go unknown
           D MajorD
Each so deep and superficial
        C majorC
Between the forceps and the stone

A minorAm Bb majorBb FF

🎸 Verse 3:
G+G
 Well I looked at the granite markers
C majorC
 Those tribute to finality to eternity
C majorC
 And then I looked at myself here
             G+G
Chicken scratching for my immortality
D MajorD
 In the church they light the candles
C majorC
 And the wax rolls down like tears
C majorC
 There's the hope and the hopelessness
        G+G
I've witnessed thirty years
       C majorC
We're only particles of change I know I know
    G+G
Orbiting around the sun
            C majorC
But how can I have that point of view
D MajorD
 When I'm always bound and tied to someone
        C majorC
White flags of winter chimneys
       G+G
Waving truce against the moon
         D MajorD
In the mirrors of a modern bank
           C majorC
From the window of a hotel room

A minorAm Bb majorBb FF

🎸 Outro:
G+G
 I'm traveling in some vehicle
C majorC
 I'm sitting in some cafe
FF             C majorC
A augmentedA defector from the petty wars
      G+G
Until love sucks me back that way

Coda:
A minorAm Bb majorBb FF
A minorAm Bb majorBb FF
(Repeat and fade)

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