Hejira chords by Joni Mitchell (Ver. 2)

• Capo on 4th
• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

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

Am F Bb

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

Am  Bb  F

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

Am  Bb  F

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

Coda:
Am  Bb  F
Am  Bb  F
(Repeat and fade)