Not To Blame chords by Joni Mitchell

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

♫ Intro:
C#m7 F#m7
A B E
A E


♫ Verse 1:
B
The story hit the news
               E    A E
From coast to coast
B
They said you beat the girl
               E
You loved the most
F#m7             A
Your charitable acts
                E    A E
Seemed out of place
           F#m7
With the beauty
           A                 E    A E
With your fist marks on her face
G#m                    B
Your buddies all stood by
                 A
They bet their fortunes
               E A
And their fame
B

That she was out of line
              E
And you were not to blame

♫ Interlude:
A E
A E
A E

♫ Verse 2:
B
Six hundred thousand doctors
                        E      A E
Are putting on rubber gloves
B
And they're poking
                         E
At the miseries made of love
                   F#m7
They say they're learning
        A                 E     A E
How to spot the battered wives
F#m7            A
Among all the women
                                  E     A E
They see bleeding through their lives
G#m                     B
I bleed for your perversity
        A                    E
These red words that make a stain
          A            E
On your white-washed claim that
B
She was out of line
              E
And you were not to blame

♫ Interlude:
A E
A E
A E

♫ Verse 3:
B
I heard your baby say
                    E   A E
When he was only three
B
"Daddy let's get some girls
                E
One for you and one for me"
F#m7                A              E   A E
His mother had the frailty you despise
         F#m7             A          E   A E
And the looks you love to drive to suicide
G#m                B
Not one wet eye around
      A              E  A E
Her lonely little grave
      B
Said "He was out of line girl
                 E
You were not to blame"

♫ Outro:
A E
A E
A E
B A E
A E