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Tax Free by Joni Mitchell
Tax Free
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
|Aadd9 | |Dm6/A | |
|G/A A |G/A A |Dm6/A | |
Verse #1
Aadd9
Front rooms Back rooms
C#/F
Slide into tables
Crowd into bathrooms
F#9
Joke around Cheap talk
A/G Aadd9
Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock
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
Pre-Chorus
A
Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!"
Dm6/F G/B
There's evil in this land ("Rock and roll music!")
A/C#
"Cast down these dope-fiends
Ebm7-5
And there noisy bands! ("Damn their souls!")
Chorus
Esus4 E
Preacher preaching love like vengeance
Dsus4/E D/E
Preaching love like hate
Esus4 E
Calling for large dona tions
Dsus4/E D/E
Promising es tates
Esus4 E
Rolling lawns and angel bands
Dsus4/E D/E
Behind the pearly gates
Esus4 E
He will have his in this life
Dsus4/E D/E
But yours will have to wait
Aadd9 Dm6/F
He-e-e-e's im maculately tax free ("Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ...")
Tax free ("Hundreds and millions of dollars")
Aadd9 G/A A E/F#
Tax free ("A hundred billion dollars!
Aadd9
( And who is paying the price? Who, who "Your children are")
verse2
Aadd9
Pissed off, Jacked up
C#/F
Scream into the mike
F#9
Spit into the loving cup
Strut like a rooster, march like a man
A/G
God's hired hands and the devil bands
Aadd9
Packing the same grand stands
C#/F
Different clothes("Pot in their pockets!") Different hair ("Sexually active")
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
Aadd9
Oh come let us a dore---ME!
Pre-chorus
Dm6/F G/B
Lord, there's danger in this land
A/C#
You get witch-hunts and wars
Ebm7-5
When church and state hold hands, Fuck it
Chorus
Esus4 E
Tonight I'm going dancing
Dsus4/E D/E
With the drag queens and the punks
Esus4 E
Big beat de liver me
Dsus4/E D/E
From this sanctimonious skunk
Esus4 E
We're no flaming angels
Dsus4/E D/E
And he's not heaven sent
Esus4 E
How can he speak for the Prince of Peace
Dsus4/E D/E
When he's hawk-right mili tant
Aadd9
He-e-e-e's immaculately tax free
Dm6/A
("Our nation has lost its guts!")Save me
G/A A
("Our nation has lost its strength") Tax free
Dm6/A
("Our nation has whimpered and cried") save me
Aadd9
("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 E/F#
("That we don't know how to act like a man") Save me
"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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