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Not To Blame by Joni Mitchell
Not To Blame
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:E
Capo:no capo
[Intro]
C#m7 F#m7
A B E
A E
[Verse 1]
B
The story hit the news
E A E
From coast to coast
B
They said you beat the girl
E
You loved the most
F#m7 A
Your charitable acts
E A E
Seemed out of place
F#m7
With the beauty
A E A E
With your fist marks on her face
G#m B
Your buddies all stood by
A
They bet their fortunes
E A
And their fame
B
That she was out of line
E
And you were not to blame
[Interlude]
A E
A E
A E
[Verse 2]
B
Six hundred thousand doctors
E A E
Are putting on rubber gloves
B
And they're poking
E
At the miseries made of love
F#m7
They say they're learning
A E A E
How to spot the battered wives
F#m7 A
Among all the women
E A E
They see bleeding through their lives
G#m B
I bleed for your perversity
A E
These red words that make a stain
A E
On your white-washed claim that
B
She was out of line
E
And you were not to blame
[Interlude]
A E
A E
A E
[Verse 3]
B
I heard your baby say
E A E
When he was only three
B
"Daddy let's get some girls
E
One for you and one for me"
F#m7 A E A E
His mother had the frailty you despise
F#m7 A E A E
And the looks you love to drive to suicide
G#m B
Not one wet eye around
A E A E
Her lonely little grave
B
Said "He was out of line girl
E
You were not to blame"
[Outro]
A E
A E
A E
B A E
A E
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