Borderline chords by Joni Mitchell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:

E       B       C#m     B
E       B       C#m     B

Verse 1:

E     A                   E
Everybody looks so ill at ease
A                     E
So distrustful so displeased
                  A
Running down the table
         B              B7
I see a borderline
       Em/B         B7
Like a barbed wire fence
Em/B                 B7
Strung tight strung tense
Em/B
Prickling with pretense
  G#m7
A borderline

F#           B                F#        B      F#
Why are you smirking at your friend?
           B
Is this to be the night when
G#m                     F#  E
All well-wishing ends?
     A             E
All credibility revoked?
A               E
Thin skin thick jokes!
                        A
Can we blame it on the smoke,
      B     E
This borderline?

Interlude:

E       B       C#m     B
E       B       C#m     B

Verse 2:

E     A                  E
Every bristling shaft of pride
           A
Church or nation
        E
Team or tribe
                    A
Every notion we subscribe to
           B           B7
Is just a borderline
        Em/B            B7
Good or bad we think we know
      Em/B                  B7
As if thinking makes things so!
     Em/B                     G#m
All convictions grow along a borderline
F#            B          F#       B  F#
Smug in your jaded expertise
     B
You scathe the wonder world
         G#m                F#
And you praise barbarity
E          A         E
In this illusionary place
      A                  E
This scared hard-edged rat race
                A
All liberty is laced with
B      E
Borderlines

Interlude:

E       B       C#m     B
E       B       C#m     B

Verse 3:

E       A           E
Every income every age
        A             E
Every fashion-plated rage
                     A
Every measure every gauge
           B             B7
Creates a borderline
       Em/B                B7
Every stone thrown through glass
       Em/B              B7
Every mean-streets-kick ass
       Em/B
Every swan caught on the grass
             G#m
Will draw a borderline
F#           B
You snipe so steady
             F#       B    F#
You snub so snide
             B
So ripe and ready
                 G#m    F#  E
To diminish and deride!
           A               E
You're so quick to condescend
    A          E
My opinionated friend
                          A
All you deface all you defend
           B     E      B    C#m
Is just a borderline
       B       E      B    C#m
Just a borderline
         B       E      B    C#m
Another borderline
         B       E
Just a borderline