Mitchell Joni - Hejira guitar tab

Tabbed by Howard Wright H.Wright@uk.ac.cf.astro

tidied: Harlan L Thompson

HEJIRA- Joni Mitchell

TUNING: C G D F G C or D A E G A D

INTRO:

Dm11

C---------------------------------------0----------

G---------------------------------------0----------

F---------0------------0------------0---------0----

D-------2----2-------2----2-------2---2-----2------

G-----2------------2------------2------------------

C--2------------2------------2---------------------

Eb6/9

C-------------------------------------------0--------

G-------------------------------------------0--------

F----------0-------------0------------0----------0--- (repeat)

D-------3----3--------3----3-------3-----3-----3-----

G-----3-------------3------------3-------------------

C--3-------------3------------3----------------------

C6/9 Fsus2add4 F

I'm travelling in some vehicle, sitting in some cafe

Fsus2add4 F C

A defector from the petty wars that shell shock love away

C6/9 Fsus2add4 F

There's comfort in melancholy, when there's no need to explain

Fsus2add4 F C

It's just as natural as the weather in this moody sky today

Fadd9 C

In our possessive coupling so much could not be expressed

Fadd9 Gadd9add4 G9add4

So now I am returning to myself these things that you and I supressed

Gadd9add4 Fadd9 C

I see something of myself in everyone, just at this moment of the world

Gadd9add4 Fadd9

As snow gathers like bolts of lace, waltzing on a ballroom girl

Dm11 Eb6/9

You know it never has been easy whether you do or you do not resign

Whether you travel the breadth of extremities or stick to some straighter line

Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock

They're either going to thaw out or freeze

Listen... strains of Benny Goodman coming through the snow and the pinewood trees

I'm porous with travel fever but you know I'm so glad to be on my own

Still sometimes the slightest touch of a stranger can set up trembling in my bones

I know no one's going to show me everything we all come and go unknown

Each so deep and superficial, between the forceps and the stone

Well I looked at the granite markers, those tributes to finality, to eternity

And then I looked at myself here, chicken scratching for my immortality

In the church they light the candles and the wax rolls down like tears

There is the hope and the hopelessness, I've witnessed thirty years

We're only particles of changes I know, I know orbiting around the sun

But how can I have that point of view when I'm always bound and tied to someone

White flags of winter chimneys waving trace against the moon

In the mirrors of a modern bank from the window of a hotel room

I'm travelling in some vehicle, I'm sitting in some cafe

A defector from the petty wars until love suck me back that way

CHORDS:

Dm11: 222000 Eb6/9: 333000 C6/9: 002222 Fsus2add4: 555555

F: 557755 C: 002200 Fadd9: 555400 Gadd9add4: 777600 G9add4: 777000

NOTE: Once again, thanks to Howard Wright. I'm just tidying up his

version so it could fit onto one page in my guitar book.