Joni Mitchell - Edith and the kingpin
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EDITH AND THE KINGPIN
Joni Mitchell
I would not disagree with Howard Wright, and disagree ever so slightly with
version 2, but this is how I play it.
It is a bit easier and more simple to play on piano or Guitar and Bass
INTRO
Cm7 / Abmaj7 / Bb2add6 / Cm7 Repeat
Cm7The big man arrives
G7sus4Disco dancers greet hCm7/Abim
Plainclothes cops greetCm7/F him
Small town, big man, fresh lCm7/Abipstick glisteniCm7/Bbng
Cm7Sophomore jive
G7sus4From victims of typewriteCm7/Abrs
The band sounds like typewriCm7/Fters
The big maCm7/Abn he's not listening Cm7 Ooh Dm7/C Ooh etc
Cm7/AbHis eyes hold Edith
His left hand holds hiG7sus4s right G7
What does that hand Ebmaj7desire
Cm7/AbThat he grips it soG7sus4 tight G7
Edith in the ring
The passed-over girls are conferring
The man with the diamond ring is purring
All claws for now withdrawn
One by one they bring
His renegade stories to her
His crimes and his glories to her
In challenge they look on
Women he has taken grow old too soon
He tilts their tired faces
Gently to the spoon
Edith in his bed
A plane in the rain is humming
The wires in the walls are humming
Some song-some mysterious song
Bars in her head
Beating frantic and snowblind
Romantic and snowblind
She says-his crime belongs
Edith and the Kingpin
Each with charm to sway
Are staring eye to eye
They dare not look away
You know they dare not look away
CODA
Cm7 / Abmaj7 / Bb2add6 / Cm7 Repeat