Joni Mitchell

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Added: Aug 22, 2008

Type: Guitar

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Skill Level: Intermediate

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Description:

Borderline - Words & Music by Joni Mitchell


Notes:

Tuning on Turbulent Indigo album: BF#BD#F#B
Tuning on live performance: CGCEGC
Also can be played in DADF#AD


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                                                     Every   -       body looks so
ill at ease             
        so distrustful so dis-


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    pleased. Running down this table, I see a borderline.                            
         Like a      
        barbed-wire


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 fence                               strung tight, strung tense,              
prickling with pretence,    
  a borderline.


                                                                 (slur):
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        Why are you         smirking at your friend?                                 
                     
this to                be the night

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  when all well-wishing ends?                          All credibility re      - 
voked?                   
              Thin skin, thick


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     jokes! Can we blame it on the smoke, this sudden          border -   line?

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