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