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A Strange Boy chords by
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

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Intro 1
D
Dm
Dsus4
Dm
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
Dm

Dsus4
D

Verse 1
Bm

A strange boy is weaving
Asus4
Gsus4
F

A course of grace and havoc
G
F

On a yellow skateboard
Gsus4
Dm

Through midday sidewalk traf
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D

fic

Just when I think he's fool
Bm
D

ish and childish
Asus4
Gsus4

And I want him to be manly

I catch my fool and my child
G
Dsus4
D

Needing love and under
Dsus4

standing
Verse 2
Gsus4

G
Gsus4

What a strange, strange boy
G
F

He still lives with his family
Fsus4
Eb
Fsus4
F
Dm

Even the war and the navy
Dsus4
C

Couldn't bring him to matur ity
Dsus4
Verse 3
D

He keeps referring
Bm
D

back to school days
Asus4
Am
Gsus4

And clinging to his child
G

Fidgeting and bullied
Gsus4
Dm
D

His crazy wisdom holding onto
Dsus4
Dm

something wild
D
Bm

He asked me to be pa tient
Asus4

Well I failed
G
Gsus4

"Grow up," I cried
G

And as, the smoke was clearing,

he said
D

"Give me one good reason why"
Dsus4
Dm
Verse 4
Gsus4

G

What a strange, strange boy
F
Gsus4
F

He sees the cars
G
F

as sets of waves
Fsus4
F
Dm

Sequences of mass and space
D
C
Dsus4

He sees the damage in my face
Verse 5
D
Bm
D

We got high on travel
Asus4
Gsus4
G

And we got drunk on alco hol

And on love, the strongest poison
D
Dm
Dsus4

and medicine of all
D

See how that feeling
Bm
D

comes and goes
Asus4
Am
Gsus4

Like the pull of moon on tides
G

Now I am surf rising
Dm
D

Now parched ribs of sand at his
Dsus4

side
Dm
Verse 6
Gsus4

G

What a strange, strange, boy
F
Gsus4

I gave him clothes and jewelry
G
F
Fsus4
F
Dm

I gave him my warm body
Dsus4

I gave him power over me
Verse 7
D
Bm

A thousand glass eyes were staring
Asus4
Am
F

In a cellar full of antique dolls
G

I found an old piano
F
Gsus4
Dm
Dsus4

And sweet chords rose up in
D
Dm
Dsus4
Dm

waxed New England halls
D
Bm

While the boarders were snoring
D
Asus4

Under crisp white
G

sheets of curfew

We were newly lovers then
Gsus4
F
Dm
D

We were fire in the stiff, blue-haired house house rules
Outro 1
Bm
D
Asus4
Am

C
Am
G
Gsus4
G
Dm
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
Dm
Dm

Dsus4
Dsus4
Dsus4


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Chords
  • D

  • Dm

  • Dsus4

  • Bm

    2
  • Asus4

  • Gsus4

  • F

  • G

  • Fsus4

  • Eb

    6
  • C

  • Am

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