Coyote/Don Juan's Reckless Daughter chords by 
Joni Mitchell 
N/A
Key: C major•
Intro 1
G
C
F
C
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C
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C
Verse 1
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Bb
Eb
No re grets, Coyote.
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Gsus4
We just come from such different
sets of circumstance
C
Gsus4
on a fall night in the stu dios
G
and you're up early on your ranch.
C
F
You'll be brush ing out
a broodmare's tail
while the sun is ascending
and I'll just be
C
Getting home with my reel -to -reel,
Bb
Eb
there's no compre hending
Bb
Gsus4
Just how close to the
bone and the skin
C
and the eyes and the lips you can get
F
Gsus4
G
And still feel so alone,
C
F
an d still feel related
Like stations in some relay,
C
you're not a hit -and -run driver,
F
no, no
Bb
Racing the wave,
F
Gsus4
you just picked up a hitcher
A prisoner of the white lines
C
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C
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C
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C
on the free way
Bb
We saw a farmhouse burning down
F
Gsus4
In the middle of nowhere,
in the middle of the night
F
C
F
We rolled right past that tragedy
Gsus4
Till we turned into
G
some roadhouse lights
F
Where a local band was playing
Locals were up kickin' and
shakin' on the floor
C
The next thing I know,
Bb
that coyote's at my door
F
Gsus4
He pins me in a corner
and he won't take no
C
He drags me out on the
dance floor
F
Gsus4
G
And we're dancin' close and slow
C
Csus4
F
Now he's got a woman at home
He's got another woman
down the hall
C
He wants me any way
F
Why'd you have to get so drunk
Bb
and lead me on that way?
F
Gsus4
You've just picked up a hitcher,
F
a prisoner of the white lines on the
C
Gsus4
F
C
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C
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C
freeway
Bb
Eb
F
I looked a coyote right in the face,
Gsus4
on the road to Belgeni
near my old hometown
G
C
He went running through the
Gsus4
whisker wheat,
G
chasing some prize down
F
An d a hawk was playing with him,
the coyote was jumping straight
up and making passes.
C
Gsus4
G
He had those same eye s just like yours,
Gsus4
C
Eb
F
under your dark glasses.
Gsus4
Privately probing the public rooms
C
and peek ing through keyholes
Gsus4
in numbered doors,
G
where the players lick their wounds
F
an d take their temporary lovers
and their pills and powders
C
to get them through this passion play.
Gsus4
F
Bb
No regrets, Coyote,
F
Gsus4
I'll just get off of the waste
You just picked up a hitcher,
F
a prisoner of the white lines on the
C
Gsus4
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C
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C
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C
free way
Bb
F
Coyote's in the coffee shop,
Gsus4
he's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs
C
F
He picks up my scent on his finger s
Gsus4
While he's watching
G
the waitress's legs
F
He's too far from the Bay of Funday
C
From Appaloosas and eagles and tides
And the air -conditioned cubicles
Bb
Eb
And the carbon ribbon rides
F
Gsus4
Are spelling it out so clear
F
C
That either he's gonna have
Gsus4
to stand and fight
G
Or take off out of here
F
Csus4
F
I tried to run away myself
C
To run away and wrestle with my ego
Bb
Gsus4
An d with this flame, this bon fire
He put her in this Eskimo
F
Gsus4
In this hitch er, in this prisoner
F
Of the fine white lines
C
Of the white lines on the freeway
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C
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C
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C
F
Asus4
A
I'm Don Juan's reckless daugh ter,
Asus4
A
I came out two days on your tail
G
Those two bald -headed days
in November
F
before the first snowflake sail
Gsus4
F
Out on the vast and subtle
plains of mystery
Bb
C
A split -tongued spirit talks,
Gsus4
noble as a nickel chief
G
Gsus4
C
striking up an old jukebox and he
F
says snakes along the railroad tracks
he says eagles and jet trails
he says coils around feathers
C
F
and talons on scales
C
Csus4
F
gravel un der the belly plates
Csus4
F
wind in the wings
big bird dragging its tail
C
G
F
in the dust snake kite flying on a string
Asus4
I come from open prairie,
A
Asus4
given some wisdom and
A
G
a lot of jive.
Gsus4
G
Last night the ghost of my old ideals
F
re -ran on channel 5.
Gsus4
F
Bb
And it howls so spooky for its eagle soul,
F
C
I nearly broke down and cried,
Gsus4
G
but the split tongue spir it laughed at me,
C
he said, your serpent cannot be denied.
F
C
F
Our serpents love the whiskey bars,
they love the romance of the crime
But didn't I see a neon sign fester
C
on your hotel blind?
F
And a coun try road come off the wall
and swoop down on the crowd at the bar
And put me at the top of your danger list
C
F
just for being so much like you are
Asus4
Cow ard against the altitude,
A
Asus4
A
coward again st the flesh,
G
Gsus4
G
coward caught between yes and no,
F
reckless on the line for yes, yes.
Gsus4
F
Reckless brazen in the play
C
of your chan ging traffic lights,
Gsus4
G
coward slinking down the hall
Gsus4
F
C
to an other rest less night.
F
Csus4
F
as we center behind the eight ball
as we rock between the sheets
as we siphon the colored language
C
F
off the farms and the streets here
C
F
in good old God save America
the home of the brave and the free
we are all hopelessly oppressed
C
cowards of some duality
F
a restless mul tiplicity
Asus4
Rest less for streets
A
and honky -tonks,
Asus4
A
Restless for home an d routine,
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Gsus4
G
Restless for country, safety and her,
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C
F
Rest less for the likes
of Reckless Meat.
Gsus4
F
Rest less sweeps like fire and rain
C
Over vir gin wilderness,
Gsus4
Prowls like hookers and thieves
G
C
Through boat -locked tenements.
F
Behind my boat -locked door,
the eagle and the serpent are at war in me
The eagle fighting for high ideals,
C
the serpent for sensuality
F
What strange prizes these battles bring,
these hectic joys, these weary blues
Puffed up and strutting
when I think I win,
C
F
down and shaken when I think I lose
Asus4
There are rivets up here in this seagull
A
There are boxcars down
Asus4
A
there on your snake
G
An d we are twins of spirit,
F
no matter which re turn we take
Or what we forsake
Gsus4
We're gonna come up to
F
the eyes of clarity
C
And we'll go down to
the beads of guile
Gsus4
G
There is danger and edu cation
C
Living out such a reckless lifestyle
F
I touched you on the central plains
It was plain to train my twin
It was just plain shadow to train shadow
C
But it was skin to skin
F
The spirit talks in spectrums
Mother Earth to Father Sky
Self -indulgence to self -denial
C
Man to woman
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Scales to feather s, you and I
C
Eagles in the sky, you and I
F
Snakes in the grass, you and I
C
F
Crawl an d fly, you and I
Oh, you and I, you and I, you and I,
you and I, you and I
C
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C
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C
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C
F
Dm
You an d I
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C
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C
F
Dm
F
C
F
C
You
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C F Bb Eb...
G
C
F
Bb
Eb
Gsus4
Csus4
Asus4
A
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