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Borderline by Joni Mitchell
Borderline
Select a tuning that best suits your voice (the
fingering is the same for all three):Tuning on
Turbulent Indigo album: BF#BD#F#B (my guitar goes
dead this low!)
Tuning on live performance: CGCEGC
Also can be played in DADF#AD
4/4
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Every - body looks so ill at ease
so distrustful so dis-
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pleased. Running down this table, I see a borderline. Like a
barbed-wire
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fence strung tight, strung tense, prickling with pretence,
a borderline.
(slur):
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Why are you smirking at your friend?
this to be the night
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when all well-wishing ends? All credibility re - voked?
Thin skin, thick
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jokes! Can we blame it on the smoke, this sudden border - line?
Everybody looks so ill at ease
So distrustful, so displeased
Running down the table
I see a borderline
Like a barbed wire fence
Strung tight, strung tense
Prickling with pretense
A borderline
Why are you smirking at your friend?
Is this to be the night
When all well-wishing ends?
All credibility revoked?
Thin skin, thick jokes
Can we blame it on the smoke
This borderline?
Every bristling shaft of pride
Church or nation
Team or tribe
Every notion we subscribe to
Is just a borderline
Good or bad, we think we know
As if thinking makes things so
All convictions grow along a borderline
Smug in your jaded expertise
You scathe the wonder world
And you praise barbarity
In this illusionary place
This scared, hard-edged rat race
All liberty is laced with
Borderlines
Every income, every age
Every fashion-plated rage
Every measure, every gauge
Creates a borderline
Every stone thrown through glass
Every mean-streets kickass
Every swan caught on the grass
Will draw a borderline
You snipe so steady
You snub so snide
So ripe and ready
To diminish and deride
You're so quick to condescend
My opinionated friend
All you deface, all you defend
Is just a borderline
Just a borderline
Another borderline
Just a borderline
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version 2
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:E
Capo:no capo
[Intro]
E B C#m B
E B C#m B
[Verse 1]
E A E
Everybody looks so ill at ease
A E
So distrustful so displeased
A
Running down the table
B B7
I see a borderline
Em/B B7
Like a barbed wire fence
Em/B B7
Strung tight strung tense
Em/B
Prickling with pretense
G#m7
A borderline
F# B F# B F#
Why are you smirking at your friend?
B
Is this to be the night when
G#m F# E
All well-wishing ends?
A E
All credibility revoked?
A E
Thin skin thick jokes!
A
Can we blame it on the smoke,
B E
This borderline?
[Interlude]
E B C#m B
E B C#m B
[Verse 2]
E A E
Every bristling shaft of pride
A
Church or nation
E
Team or tribe
A
Every notion we subscribe to
B B7
Is just a borderline
Em/B B7
Good or bad we think we know
Em/B B7
As if thinking makes things so!
Em/B G#m
All convictions grow along a borderline
F# B F# B F#
Smug in your jaded expertise
B
You scathe the wonder world
G#m F#
And you praise barbarity
E A E
In this illusionary place
A E
This scared hard-edged rat race
A
All liberty is laced with
B E
Borderlines
[Interlude]
E B C#m B
E B C#m B
[Verse 3]
E A E
Every income every age
A E
Every fashion-plated rage
A
Every measure every gauge
B B7
Creates a borderline
Em/B B7
Every stone thrown through glass
Em/B B7
Every mean-streets-kick ass
Em/B
Every swan caught on the grass
G#m
Will draw a borderline
F# B
You snipe so steady
F# B F#
You snub so snide
B
So ripe and ready
G#m F# E
To diminish and deride!
A E
You're so quick to condescend
A E
My opinionated friend
A
All you deface all you defend
B E B C#m
Is just a borderline
B E B C#m
Just a borderline
B E B C#m
Another borderline
B E
Just a borderline
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