Not To Blame chords by Joni Mitchell

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

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

♫ Intro:
C#m7C#m7 F#m7F#m7
A augmentedA BB E MajorE
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♫ Verse 1:
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The story hit the news
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From coast to coast
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They said you beat the girl
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You loved the most
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Your charitable acts
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Seemed out of place
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With the beauty
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With your fist marks on her face
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Your buddies all stood by
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They bet their fortunes
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And their fame
BB
That she was out of line
       E MajorE
And you were not to blame

♫ Interlude:
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♫ Verse 2:
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Six hundred thousand doctors
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Are putting on rubber gloves
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And they're poking
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At the miseries made of love
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They say they're learning
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How to spot the battered wives
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Among all the women
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They see bleeding through their lives
G# minorG#m           BB
I bleed for your perversity
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These red words that make a stain
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On your white-washed claim that
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She was out of line
       E MajorE
And you were not to blame

♫ Interlude:
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♫ Verse 3:
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I heard your baby say
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When he was only three
BB
"Daddy let's get some girls
        E MajorE
One for you and one for me"
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His mother had the frailty you despise
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And the looks you love to drive to suicide
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Not one wet eye around
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Her lonely little grave
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Said "He was out of line girl
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You were not to blame"

♫ Outro:
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