Tax Free
Joni Mitchell
Tax Free Transcription and chart Peter Kruger |Aadd9 | |Dm6/A | | |/ |/ |/ | | Verse #1 Aadd9 Front rooms Back rooms Slide into tables Crowd into bathrooms Joke around Cheap talk A/G Aadd9 Deep talk Talk talk talk around the clock Crawl homeLie down Teeth chatter Heart pounds I don’t feel so good I don’t feel so good Push a button to escape Pre-Chorus Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!" There’s evil in this land "Rock and roll music!") "Cast down these dope-fiends And there noisy bands!"Damn their souls!" Chorus Esus4 E Preacher preaching love like vengeance Preaching love like hate Esus4 E Calling for large dona tions Promising es tates Esus4 E Rolling lawns and angel bands Behind the pearly gates Esus4 E He will have his in this life Dsus4/E D But yours will have to wait Aadd9 He’s immaculately tax free ("Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ...") Dm6/F Aadd9 Tax free ("Hundreds and millions of dollars") Tax free ("A hundred billion dollars! And who is paying the price? Who who ("Your children are") verse2 Aadd9 Pissed off Jacked up Scream into the mike Spit into the loving cup Strut like a rooster march like a man God’s hired hands and the devil bands Aadd9 Packing the same grand stands Different clothes ("Pot in their pockets!") Different hair ("Sexually active") Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air Theatre of anguish Theatre of glory God’s hired hands and the devil bands Aadd9 Oh come let us a dore---ME! Pre-chorus Lord there’s danger in this land You get witch-hunts and wars When church and state hold hands Fuck it Chorus Esus4 E Tonight I’m going dancing With the drag queens and the punks Esus4 E Big beat de liver me From this sanctimonious skunk Esus4 E We’re no flaming angels Dsus4/E D And he’s not heaven sent Esus4 E How can he speak for the Prince of Peace When he’s hawk-right mili tant Aadd9 And he’s immaculately tax free ("Our nation has lost its guts!") Save me ("Our nation has lost its strength") Tax free ("Our nation has whimpered and cried") Save me Aadd9 ("And petted the Castros") Tax free ("The Khomeinis’ and the Kaddafis’") Save me G/A Aadd9 ("For so long") Tax free ("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!"