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Joni Mitchell - Trouble Child Chords

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Trouble Child Chords

(ver. 1)
Joni Mitchell
[Intro]
e|--x-x-x---x--x--|--x-x--x--x--x--x--|
B|----------------|--0-0--2--0--2--0--|
G|----------------|--0-0--2--0--2--0--|
D|--2-2-4---7--9--|--0-0--2--0--2--0--|
A|--0-0-2---5--7--|--0-0--0--0--0--0--|
E|----------------|--0-0--0--0--0--0--|


[Verse 1]
B/A                A               F#m11 
Up in a sterilised room where they let you be (Intro) la-a-zy.
D/A                         A                    F#m11  
Knowing your attitude's all wrong and you got to change and that's not (Intro) ea-sy.
Dmaj9                          E9   E6   E9   E6   E9  
Dragon shining with all values known.  (short riff)
Dmaj9                          E5      D5   E5   A5  
Dazzling you keeping your from your    own. (short riff)
D/A                         A                         F#m11  
Where is the lion in you to defy him when you're this weak and this (Intro) spa-cy?


[Verse 2]
B/A                               A              F#m11 
So what are you going to do about it?  You can't live life and you can't (Intro) leave it.
D/A                             A                  F#m11  
Advice and religion - you can't take it. You can't seem to (Intro) believe it.
Dmaj9                    E9   E6   E9   E6   E9  
The peacock is afraid to parade.  
       Dmaj9                  E5   D5   E5   A5  
You're under the thumb of the maid. 
    D/A                            A                    F#m11                E
You really can't give love in this condition. Still you know how you (Intro) need it


[Chorus 1]
E             A9      Emaj7/G#                    F#m11     B4         E
They open and close   you and they talk like they know you, they don't know you.
                             A      Emaj7/G#  
They're friends and they're foes   too. Trouble child 
Bsus              B4                 E  E9+7 arpeggio  Intro 
breaking like the waves at       Malibu  


[Verse 3]
   B/A                        A                 F#m11   
So why does it come as such a shock to know you really have (Intro) no one?
D/A                      A     F#m11         
Only a river of changing faces looking for an (Intro) ocean 
Dmaj9                           E9   E6   E9   E6   E9  
They trickle through your leaky plans 
 Dmaj9                  E5   D5  E5   A5  
another dream over the dam 
           D/A                                  A           F#m11    E 
And you're lying in some room feeling like your right to be human is going over too.


[Chorus 2]
                        A9      Emaj7/G#  
Well, some are going to knock   you, 
Emaj7/G#            F#m11  B4  E
and some'll try an' clock         you. 
                             A9            Emaj7/G#   
You know it's really hard to talk sense to you, Trouble child 
Bsus              B4               E  E9+7  arpeggio  Intro
breaking like the waves at     Malibu              
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