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Don Juan's Reckless Daughter by Joni Mitchell
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
[Intro- Repeat three times]
Fsus2 Fsus2 Fsus2 F
Fsus2 Fsus2 F
[Verse 1]
Asus2 A
I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter
Asus2 A
I came out two days on your tail
Gsus2 G
Those two bald-headed days in No-vember
F
Before the first snowflakes sail
G Am Bb
Out on the vast and subtle plains of myste-ry
C
A split tongue spirit talks
Gsus2 G
Noble as a nickel chief
C
Striking up an old jukebox
Fsus2 F
And he says, "snakes along the railroad tracks"
Fsus2 F
He says, "eagles in jet trails"
Fsus2 F C
He says, "coils around feathers and talons on scales"
Fsus2 F
"Gravel under the belly plates"
Fsus2 F
He says, "wind in the Wings"
Fsus4 F
He says, "big bird dragging its tail in the dust
C F
Snake kite flying on a string"
[Verse 2]
Asus2 A
I come from open prairie
Asus2 A
Given some wisdom and a lot of jive
Gsus4 G
Last night the ghosts of my old ideas
F
Reran on Channel Five
G Am Bb
And it howled so spooky for its eagle soul
C
I nearly broke down and cried
Gsus4 G
But the split tongue spirit laughed at me
C
He says, "your serpent cannot be denied"
Fsus2 F
Our serpents love the whisky bars
Fsus4 F
They love the romance of the crime
Fsus2 F
But didn't I see a neon sign
C
Fester on your hotel blind?
Fsus2 F
And a country road come off the wall
Fsus2 F
And swoop down on the crowd at the bar
Fsus2 F
And put me at the top of your danger list
C F
Just for being so much like you are
[Verse 3]
Asus2 A
You're a coward against the alti-tude
Asus2 A
You're a coward against the flesh
Gsus2 G
Coward, caught between yes and no
Fsus2 F
Reckless this time on the line for yes, yes, yes!
G Am Bb
Reckless brazen in the play
C
Of your changing traffic lights
Gsus2 G
Coward, slinking down the hall
C
To another restless night
Fsus2 F
As we center behind the eight ball
Fsus2 F
As we rock between the sheets
Fsus2 F
As we siphon the colored lan-guage
C
Off the farms and the streets
Fsus2 F
Here in good old "God save America"
Fsus2 F
The home of the brave and the free
Fsus2 F
We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards
C
Of some duality
F
Of restless multi-plicity(Oh, say can you see)
[Verse 4]
Asus2 A
Restless for streets and honky-tonks
Asus2 A
Restless for home and rou-tine
Gsus4 G
Restless for country safety and her
F
Restless for the likes of reckless me
G Am Bb
Restless sweeps like fire and rain
C
Over virgin wilderness
Gsus2 G
It prowls like hookers and thieves
C
Through bolt-locked tenements
Fsus2 F
Behind my bolt locked door
Fsus2 F
The eagle and the serpent are at war in me
Fsus2 F
The serpent fighting for blind de-sire
C
The eagle for clarity
Fsus2 F
What strange prizes these battles bring
Fsus2 F
These hectic joys, these weary blues
Fsus2 F
Puffed up and strutting when I think I win
C F
Down and shaken when I think I lose
[Verse 5]
Asus2 A
There are rivets up here in this ea-gle
Asus2 A
There are box cars down there on your snake
Gsus2 G
And we are twins of spirit
F
No matter which route home we take -Or what we forsake
G Am Bb
We're going to come up to the eyes of clari- ty
C
And we'll go down to the beads of guile
Gsus2 G
There is danger and educa- tion
C
In living out such a reckless life style
Fsus2 F
I touched you on the central plains
Fsus2 F
It was plane to train my twin
Fsus2 F
It was just plane shadow to train shadow
C
But to me it was skin to skin
[Coda]
Fsus2 F
The spirit talks in spectrums
Fsus2 F
He talks to mother earth to father sky
Fsus2 F
Self indulgence to self denial
C F
Man to woman, Scales to feathers
F C
You and I Eagles in the sky You and I
F
Snakes in the grass- You and I
C
Crawl and fly- You and I
F C
Oh, you and I, you and I, you and I
C F C
By the dawn's early light
F
You and I, you and I
F
You and I, you and I
C
Oh, you and I
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