Coyote chords by 
Joni Mitchell 
Key: C major•
Intro 1
C
F
C
F
C
F
C
Verse 1
Eb
No regrets, coyote
G
We just come from such
C
different sets of circum stance
I'm up all night in the studios
F
G
And you're up early on your ranch
F
You'll be brushing out a
brood mare's tail
While the sun is as cend ing
C
And I'll just be getting home
with my reel to reel
Eb
There's no comprehending
G
Just how close to the bone
C
and the skin and the eyes
F
And the lips you can get
G
And still feel so a lone
F
And still feel re lated
Like stations in some relay
C
You're not a,
a hit and run driver, no, no
Eb
Racing away
G
You just picked up a hitcher
A prisoner of the white lines on the
C
F
C
F
freeway
C
F
C
Verse 2
Eb
We saw a farmhouse burning down
G
In the middle of nowhere
In the middle of the night
C
We rolled right past
F
that trag edy
G
'Til we turned down
to some road house lights
F
Where a local band was playing
Locals were up kicking and
C
shaking on the floor
And the next thing I know
Eb
That coyote's at my door
G
He pins me in a corner
and he won't take no
C
F
Drags me out on the dance floor
G
And we're dancing close and slow
F
Now he's got a woman at home
He's got an other woman down the hall
He seems to want me anyway
C
Why'd you have to
get so drunk
Eb
And lead me on that way
G
You just picked up a hitcher
A prisoner of the white lines on the
C
F
C
F
freeway
C
F
C
Verse 3
Eb
I looked a coyote right in the face
G
On the road to Baljennie,
C
near my old home town
F
He went running thru the whisker wheat
G
Chasing some prize down
F
And a hawk was play ing with him
F
Coyote was jumping straight up
C
and making pass es
He had those same eyes
Eb
just like yours
Under your dark glasses
G
Privately probing the public rooms
C
And peeking through keyholes
F
in numbered doors
G
Where the players
lick their wounds
F
And take their temporary lo vers
And their pills and powders
C
To get them through this passion play
No regrets, coy ote
Eb
I just get off up always
G
You just picked up a hitcher
A prisoner of the white lines on the
C
F
C
F
freeway
C
F
C
Verse 4
Eb
Coyote's in in the coffee shop
G
He's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs
C
F
He picks up my scent on his fingers
G
While he's watching
the wai tress es' legs
F
He's too far from the Bay of Fundy
From appaloosas
C
and eagles and tides
Eb
And the air con ditioned cu bicles
And the carbon ribbon rides
G
Are spelling it out so clear
C
Either he's going to have to
F
stand and fight
G
Or take off out of here
F
I tried to run a way my self
To run away and wres tle
C
with my e- go
Eb
With this, this flame
G
You put here in this Eskimo
In this hitcher
G
In this prisoner
G
Of the fine white lines
Of the white lines on the
C
F
C
free, free way
Outro 1
Eb
G
G
C
F
C
F
C
F
C
F
[Fade out]
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ChordsC F Eb G
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