Hejira Chords by Joni Mitchell

[Start]

[Intro]
C#m7 D C#m7 D
■    ■ ■    ■


[Verse]
              B               B7
I'm traveling in some vehicle ■ 
Esus4                     E   
■     I'm sitting in some cafe
  Esus4                   E   
A defector from the petty wars
                      Bmaj7 B
That shell shock love away  ■
                              Bmaj7
There's comfort in melancholy ■    
Esus4                         E      
■     When there's no need to explain
             Esus4                 
It's just as natural as the weather
E                 B    
In this moody sky today
       E                  
In our possessive coupling
                     B        
So much could not be expressed
       F#            E        
So now i'm returning to myself
F#              F#sus4                    F#
■  These things that you and i suppressed ■ 
                   E                 
I see something of myself in everyone


[Chorus]
                           B    
Just at this moment of the world
                           F#sus4 
As snow gathers like bolts of lace
                       E   
Waltzing on a ballroom girl


[Inst]
C#sus4 A D Bmaj7
■      ■ ■ ■    


[Verse]
                           Bmaj7
You know it never has been easy 
Esus4                          E         
■     Whether you do or you do not resign
        Esus4                     E          
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
                 B              
Or stick to some straighter line
                             B                
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
Esus4                                     E     
■     They're either going to thaw out or freeze
       Esus4 Bsus4            E      
Listen ■     Strains of benny goodman
                      Esus4         E        B    
Coming thru' the snow ■     and the pinewood trees


[Chorus]
    E                       
I'm porous with travel fever
                               B        
But you know i'm so glad to be on my own
                  E                    F#      
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
           F#sus4          F#   
Can set up trembling in my bones
  F#sus4        E                          
I know no one's going to show me everything
                B         
We all come and go unknown
                 F#          F#sus4
Each so deep and superficial ■     
            E                     C#m7
Between the forceps and the stone ■   


[Inst]

[Verse]
D B Bmaj7                        B      
■ ■ Well i looked at the granite markers
Esus4                  E           Esus4   
■     Those tribute to finality to eternity
                                 E
And then i looked at myself here ■
                          B          
Chicken scratching for my immortality
                             B      
In the church they light the candles
Esus4                   E               Esus4
■     And the wax rolls down like tears ■    
                 E                   
There's the hope and the hopelessness
               B           
I've witnessed thirty years
           E                                
We're only particles of change i know i know
B                      
Orbiting around the sun


[Chorus]
                        E            
But how can i have that point of view
F#                           F#sus4  F#     
■  When i'm always bound and tied to someone
F#sus4         E              
White flags of winter chimneys
             B               
Waving truce against the moon
                    F#          F#sus4
In the mirrors of a modern bank ■     
                     E         
From the window of a hotel room


[Solo]

[Chorus]
D Bmaj7                  B           
■ ■     I'm traveling in some vehicle
Esus4                     E   
■     I'm sitting in some cafe
  E                           
A defector from the petty wars
           B                     
Until love sucks me back that way


[Solo]
C# C#sus4 D C#m7 D C#m7
■  ■      ■ ■    ■ ■   
D C#m7 Esus4 C#m7
■ ■    ■     ■   


[Outro]