Joni Mitchell - Tax free
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Tax Free
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|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 Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the Aadd9clock
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
Preacher on the tube crying &qAuot;Lord!"
There's Dm6/Fevil in this landG/B
"Rock and roll music!")
"A/C#Cast down these dope-fiends
Ebm7-5
And there noisy bands!"
"Damn their souls!"
Preacher Esus4preaching love like Evengeance
Dsus4/E Preaching love like D/Ehate
Esus4 Calling for large donEations
Dsus4/E Promising es D/Etates
Esus4 Rolling lawns and Eangel bands
Dsus4/E Behind the pearly D/Egates
Esus4 He will have his Ein this life
But Dsus4/E yours will have to Dwait
Add9
He's immaculately tax free
("Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ...")
Dm6/F Add9
Tax free
("Hundreds and millions of dollars")
Tax free G/A A
("A hundred billion dollaE/F#rs!
And who is paying the price?
Who, who
("Your children are")
Aadd9 Pissed off
Jacked up
C#/F Scream into the mike
Spit into the loving F#9cup
Strut like a rooster
March like a man
A/G God's hired hands and the devil bands
Packing the same grandsAadd9tands
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
Oh come let us aAadd9dore---ME!
Lord, there's Dm6/Fdanger in this G/Bland
You get witch-A/C#hunts and wars
Ebm7-5
When church and state hold hands
Fuck it!
Esus4 Tonight I'm going Edancing
With the Dsus4/Edrag queens and the D/Epunks
Esus4Big beat de lEiver me
From this Dsus4/Esanctimonious sD/Ekunk
Esus4 We're no flaming Eangels
Dsus4/E And he's not heaven Dsent
Esus4 How can he speak for the EPrince of Peace
When he's Dsus4/Ehawk-right miliD/Etant
Add9
And he's immaculately
tax free
Dm6/A ("Our nation has lost its guts!")
Save me
G/A A ("Our nation has lost its strength")
G/ATax fAree
Dm6/A ("Our nation has whimpered and cried")
Save me
Add9
("And petted the Castros")
Tax free
Dm6/A ("The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'")
Save me
G/A Aadd9 ("For so long")
Tax free
Dm6/A ("That we don't know how to act like a man")
Save me E/F#
"I think that we should turn the United States Marines
loose on that little island south of Florida and
stop that problem!"
"I am preachin' love, I am!"
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Peter Kruger
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