Don Juan's Reckless Daughter chords by 
Joni Mitchell 
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Key: C major•
Intro 1
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G
Asus4
A
I'm Don Juan's reckless
Verse 1
daughter
I came out two days on your tail
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Those two bald-headed days
days in November
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Before the first snowflakes sail
G
Out on the vast and subtle
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C
plains of mys tery
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C
A split tongue spirit talks
G
Noble as a nickel chief
C
Striking up an old jukebox
And he says,
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Fsus4
F
"snakes along the railroad tracks"
Fsus4
He says, "eagles in jet trails"
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He says, "coils around feathers and
Csus4
C
F
talon s on scales"
"Gravel under the belly plates"
Fsus4
F
He says, "wind in the Wings"
Fsus4
He says, "big bird dragging
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its tail in the dust
C
F
Snake kite flying on a string"
Verse 2
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A
I come from open prairie
Given some wisdom and a lot of jive
G
Last night the ghosts of my old ideas
F
Reran on channel five
G
An d it howled so spooky
Am
G
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for its eagle soul
C
I nearly broke down and cried
G
But the split tongue spirit laughed at me
C
He says, "your serpent cannot be denied"
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Fsus4
F
Our ser pents love the whisky bars
They love the romance of the crime
But didn't I see a neon sign
C
Fester on your hotel blind?
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An d a country road come
off the wall
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And swoop down on
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the crowd at the bar
And put me at the top of your danger list
C
Just for being so much like you are
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Verse 3
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A
You're a coward against the altitude
You're a coward against the flesh
G
Coward, caught between yes and no
F
Reckless this time on the line for yes,
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yes, yes
Am
Reckless brazen in the play
F
C
Of your changing traffic lights
G
Coward, slinking down the hall
C
To another rest less night
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Fsus4
F
As we center behind the eight ball
Fsus4
F
As we rock between the sheets
Fsus4
F
As we siphon the colored lan guage
C
F
Off the farms and the streets
Fsus4
F
Here in good old "God save America"
The home of the brave and the free
We are all hopelessly
oppressed cowards
C
Of some duality
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Of restless multiplicity
A
(Oh, say can you see)
Verse 4
A
Restless for streets and honky-tonks
Restless Restless for home and routine
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Rest less for country safety and her
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Restless for the likes of
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reckless me
Am
F
Restless sweeps like fire and rain
C
Over virgin wilderness
G
It prowls like hookers and thieves
C
F
Through bolt locked tenements
Behind my bolt locked door
The eagle and the serpent
are at war in me
Fsus4
F
The serpent fighting for blind de sire
C
F
The eagle for clarity
Fsus4
F
What strange prizes these battles bring
These hectic joys, these weary blues
Fsus4
F
Puffed up and strut ting
when I think I win
C
Down and shaken when I think I lose
Interlude 1
C
F
Verse 5
F
Asus4
A
There are rivets up here in this eagle
There are box cars down
there on your snake
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And we are twins of spirit
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No matter which route home we take
Or what we forsake
G
We're going to come up to
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the eyes of clar ity
C
And we'll go down to the beads of guile
G
There is danger and education
C
In living out such a reckless life style
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Fsus4
F
I touched you on the central plains
Fsus4
F
It was plane to train my twin
Fsus4
F
It was just plane shadow to train shadow
C
But to me it was skin to skin
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Fsus4
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The spir it talk s in spectrums
He talks to mother earth to father sky
Self indulgence to self denial
C
Man to woman
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Scales to feath ers
You and I
C
Eagles in the sky
Verse 6
You and I
C
F
Snakes in the grass
C
You and I
Crawl and fly
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You and I
Verse 7
C
Oh, you and I, you and I, you and I
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C
F
By the dawn's early light
You and I, you and I
You and I, you and I
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Oh, you an d I
Outro 1
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C
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C
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C
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