Joni Mitchell (nacida como Roberta Joan Anderson el 7 de noviembre de 1943, en Alberta) es una músico y pintora canadiense. Comenzó su carrera musical en Toronto y en el oeste de Canadá, relacionándose posteriormente con la floreciente escena de folk de Nueva York de mediados de los sesenta. A lo largo de los años 70 amplió sus horizontes musicales, dirigiendo en especial su interés hacia el pop y el jazz, para convertirse en una de las cantantes y compositoras más respetadas de finales del siglo XX.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Verse #1 Aadd9 Front rooms Back rooms C#/F Slide into tables
Crowd into bathrooms F#9 Joke around Cheap talk A/GAadd9 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/FG/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
Esus4E Preacher preaching love like vengeance Dsus4/ED/E Preaching love like hate Esus4E Calling for large donations Dsus4/ED/E Promising es tates Esus4E Rolling lawns and angel bands Dsus4/ED/E Behind the pearly gates Esus4E He will have his in this life Dsus4/ED But yours will have to wait Aadd9 He's immaculately tax free ("Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ...") Dm6/FAadd9 Tax free ("Hundreds and millions of dollars") G/AA Tax free E/F# ("A hundred billion dollars!
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 grandstands
Different clothes ("Pot in their pockets!") Different hair ("Sexually active") C#/F 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 adore---ME!
Pre-chorus
Dm6/FG/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
Esus4E Tonight I'm going dancing Dsus4/ED/E With the drag queens and the punks Esus4E Big beat de liver me Dsus4/ED/E From this sanctimonious skunk Esus4E We're no flaming angels Dsus4/ED And he's not heaven sent Esus4E How can he speak for the Prince of Peace Dsus4/ED/E When he's hawk-right militant Aadd9 And he's immaculately
tax free Dm6/A ("Our nation has lost its guts!") Save me G/AA ("Our nation has lost its strength") G/AA 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/AAadd9 ("For so long") Tax free Dm6/A ("That we don't know how to act like a man") E/F# 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!"