Tax Free chords by Joni Mitchell

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Tax Free

| Add9           |             |Dm6/A           |               |



|G/A    A        |  G/A        |Dm6/A           |               |



Aadd9
       Front rooms Back rooms

C#/F
        Slide into tables

Crowd into bathrooms

F#9
     Joke around Cheap talk

A/G                                       Aadd9
    Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock

Crawl home,Lie down

C#/F
      Teeth chatter Heart pounds

F#9
     I don't feel so good I don't feel so good

A/G
    Push a button to escape

                              A
Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!"

        Dm6/F            G/B
There's evil in this land


"Rock and roll music!")

      A/C#
"Cast down these dope-fiends

           Ebm7-5
And there noisy bands!"
"Damn their souls!"

         Esus4               E
Preacher preaching love like vengeance

Dsus4/E                    D/E
       Preaching love like hate



Esus4                       E
       Calling for large donations

Dsus4/E              D/E
        Promising es tates


Esus4                    E
       Rolling lawns and angel bands


Dsus4/E                   D/E
        Behind the pearly gates


Esus4                    E
        He will have his in this life


    Dsus4/E                   D
But        yours will have to wait


        Add9
He's immaculately tax free

("Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ...")

Dm6/F             Add9
       Tax free

("Hundreds and millions of dollars")

          G/A   A
Tax free
                              E/F#
("A hundred billion dollars!

And who is paying the price?

Who, who

("Your children are")


Aadd9
      Pissed off


Jacked up

C#/F
     Scream into the mike

                     F#9
Spit into the loving cup


Strut like a rooster


March like a man

A/G
     God's hired hands and the devil bands



                       Aadd9
Packing the same grandstands


Different clothes


("Pot in their pockets!")


Different hair


("Sexually active")

C#/F
     Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air

F#9
      Theatre of anguish


Theatre of glory

A/G
    God's hired hands and the devil bands

                Aadd9
Oh come let us adore---ME!

              Dm6/F          G/B
Lord, there's danger in this land

              A/C#
You get witch-hunts and wars

                Ebm7-5
When church and state hold hands


Fuck it!

Esus4                   E
      Tonight I'm going dancing

         Dsus4/E             D/E
With the drag queens and the punks

Esus4        E
Big beat de liver me

          Dsus4/E        D/E
From this sanctimonious skunk

Esus4                  E
      We're no flaming angels

Dsus4/E                     D
        And he's not heaven sent


Esus4                         E
     How can he speak for the Prince of Peace

          Dsus4/E        D/E
When he's hawk-right militant

         Add9
And he's       immaculately


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Dm6/A
       ("Our nation has lost its guts!")


Save me

G/A   A
         ("Our nation has lost its strength")

G/A  A
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Dm6/A
          ("Our nation has whimpered and cried")

Save me

Add9
      ("And petted the Castros")


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Dm6/A
     ("The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'")


Save me


G/A  Aadd9
          ("For so long")

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Dm6/A
     ("That we don't know how to act like a man")

         E/F#
Save me