Hejira Chords by Joni Mitchell
- Key: B
- BPM: 87
- Capo: no capo
TEMPO FORTE
HEJIRA ACORDES
[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]