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