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The Jungle Line by Joni Mitchell
The Jungle Line
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:G#m
Capo:no capo
[Intro]
D
[Verse 1]
F# G#m C#m C
Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
D G#m
Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
A D#
Through I-bars and girders, through wires and pipes
D G#m
The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
B C
Through huts, through Harlem, through jails and gospel pews
A D# B
Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine
E A#
Through Europe and the deep, deep heart of Dixie blue
D G#m
Through savage progress cuts the jungle line
[Verse 2]
F# G#m C#m C
In a low-cut blouse she brings the beer
D G#m
Rousseau paints a jungle flower behind her ear
A D#
Those cannibals of shuck and jive
D G#m
They'll eat a working girl like her alive
B C
With his hard-edged eye and his steady hand
A D# B
He paints the cellar full of ferns and orchid vines
E A#
And he hangs a moon above a five-piece band
D G#m
He hangs it up above the jungle line
[Verse 3]
F# G#m C#m C
The jungle line, the jungle line
D G#m
Screaming in a ritual of sound and time
A D#
Floating, drifting on the air-conditioned wind
D G#m
And drooling for a taste of something smuggled in
B C
Pretty women funneled through valves and smoke
A D# B
Coy and bitchy, wild and fine
E A#
And charging elephants and chanting slaving boats
D G#m
Charging, chanting down the jungle line
[Verse 4]
F# G#m C#m C
There's a poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb
D G#m
There's a poppy snake in a dressing room
A D#
Poppy poison, poppy tourniquet
D G#m
It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit
B C
And metal skin and ivory birds
A D# B
Go steaming up to Rousseau's vines
E A#
They go steaming up to Brooklyn Bridge
D G#m
Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line
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