For the Roses chords by
Joni Mitchell

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Key: Bb major

Intro 1

Verse 1
G G 
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I heard it in the wind last night
Cm Cm 3
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It sounded like applause
G G 
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Did you get a round resounding for you
Way up here
Seems like many dim years ago
Since I heard that face to face
Cm Cm 3
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So seen you face to face
G G 
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Though tonight I can feel you here
Gm Gm 3
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I get these notes
G G 
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Gsus4 Gsus4 
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On butterflies and lilac    sprays
G G 
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Am Am 
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G G 
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From girls who just have to tell me
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G G 
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They     saw you somewhere

Interlude 1

Verse 2
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In some office sits a poet
And he trembles as he sings
Cm Cm 3
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And he  asks some guy
G G 
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To circulate his soul around
On your mark red ribbon runner
The caressing rev of motors
Cm Cm 3
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Finely tuned like fancy women
G G 
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In Thirties evening gowns
Gm Gm 3
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Up the charts
Off to the airport
G G 
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Gsus4 Gsus4 
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Your name's   in the news
G G 
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Am Am 
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Everything's first class
The lights go down
G G 
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F F 
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Gsus4 Gsus4 
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G G 
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And it's just you up there
Getting them to feel like
that
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Verse 3
G G 
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Remember the days when you used to sit
And make up your tunes for love
Cm Cm 3
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And pour your simple sorrow
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Cm Cm 3
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G G 
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To the sound hole and your knee
And now you're seen
On giant screens
And at parties for the press
Cm Cm 3
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G G 
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And for people who have slices of you
From the company
Gm Gm 3
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They toss around your latest
golden egg
G G 
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Speculation-well,
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G G 
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Am Am 
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who's who's to know
G G 
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If the next one in the nest
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Gsus4 Gsus4 
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G G 
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Gsus4 Gsus4 
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G G 
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Will glitter  for
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them so
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F F 
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G G 
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Verse 4
I guess I seem ungrateful
With my teeth sunk in the hand
Cm Cm 3
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That brings me things
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I really can't give up just yet
Now I sit up here
The critic!
And they introduce some band
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But they seem so much confetti
G G 
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Looking at them on my TV set
Gm Gm 3
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Oh the power and the glory
G G 
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Gsus4 Gsus4 
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Just when you're getting
a taste for worship
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Am Am 
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They start bringing out the
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F F 
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hammers
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G G 
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And  the boards

Interlude 2

And the nails

Gsus4

Verse 5
G G 
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A A 
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I heard it in the wind last night
G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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It sounded like ap plause
Chilly now
End of summer
G G 
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No more shiny hot nights
It was just the arbutus rustling
A A 
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And the bumping of the logs
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Cm Cm 3
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And the moon swept down black water
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Like an empty spotlight

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