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Don Juan's Reckless Daughter chords by
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

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Intro 1
F

G
Asus4

A
I'm Don Juan's reckless
Verse 1

daughter

I came out two days on your tail
G

Those two bald-headed days

days in November
F

Before the first snowflakes sail
G

Out on the vast and subtle
Am
C

plains of mys tery
Bb
C

A split tongue spirit talks
G

Noble as a nickel chief
C

Striking up an old jukebox

And he says,
F
Fsus4
F

"snakes along the railroad tracks"
Fsus4

He says, "eagles in jet trails"
F

He says, "coils around feathers and
Csus4
C
F

talons on scales"

"Gravel under the belly plates"
Fsus4
F

He says, "wind in the Wings"
Fsus4

He says, "big bird dragging
F

its tail in the dust
C
F

Snake kite flying on a string"
Verse 2
G

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

And it howled so spooky
Am
G
Bb

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"
F
Fsus4
F

Our serpents 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?
F

And a country road come

off the wall
Fsus4

And swoop down on
F

the crowd at the bar

And put me at the top of your danger list
C

Just for being so much like you are
F
Verse 3

G
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,
G

yes, yes
Am

Reckless brazen in the play
F
C

Of your changing traffic lights
G

Coward, slinking down the hall
C

To another restless night
F
Fsus4
F

As we center behind the eight ball
Fsus4
F

As we rock between the sheets
Fsus4
F

As we siphon the colored language
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
F

Of restless multiplicity
A

(Oh, say can you see)
Verse 4
A

Restless for streets and honky-tonks

Restless Restless for home and routine
G

Restless for country safety and her
F

Restless for the likes of
G

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 desire
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 strutting

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
G

And we are twins of spirit
F

No matter which route home we take

Or what we forsake
G

We're going to come up to
Am
F

the eyes of clarity
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
F
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
F
Fsus4
F

The spirit talks in spectrums

He talks to mother earth to father sky

Self indulgence to self denial
C

Man to woman
F

Scales to feathers

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
F

You and I
Verse 7
C

Oh, you and I, you and I, you and I
F
C
F

By the dawn's early light

You and I, you and I

You and I, you and I
C

Oh, you and I
Outro 1
C
F
C

F
C

F
C


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  • Asus4

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  • Bb

  • Fsus4

  • Csus4

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