Hejira chords by 
Joni Mitchell 
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Key: B major•
Intro 1
C#m
D
C#m
D
B
Verse 1
B
I'm traveling in some vehicle
E
D
Esus4
E
I'm sitting in some cafe
Esus4
E
A de fector from the petty wars
That shell shocked love away
B
Verse 2
Esus4
There's comfort in melancholy
E
When there's no need to explain
Esus4
E
It's just as nat ural as the weather
In this moody sky today
B
Verse 3
E
In our possessive coupling
B
So much could not be expressed
E
F#
So now I am re turning to myself
F#sus4
These things that you and I
F#
suppressed
F#sus4
I see something
Verse 4
E
of
myself in everyone
B
Just at this moment of the world
F#
As snow gathers like bolts
F#sus4
of lace
E
Waltzing on a ball room girl
Interlude 1
E
C#m
D
B
Verse 5
B
E
You know it never has been easy
Esus4
E
Whether you do or you do not resign
Whether you travel
Esus4
the breadth of extremities
E
B
Or stick to some straighter line
Verse 6
B
Now here's a man and a woman sitting
Esus4
on a rock
They're either going
E
to thaw out or freeze
Esus4
E
Listen, strain s of Benny Goodman
Coming through' the snow
B
and the pinewood trees
Verse 7
E
I'm porous with travel fever
But you know I'm so glad
B
to be on my own
E
Still somehow the slight est
F#
touch of a stranger
F#sus4
Can set up trembling in my bones
Verse 8
E
I know, no one's going
to show me everything
B
We all come and go unknown
F#sus4
Each so deep and super
F#
F#sus4
ficial
E
Between the for ceps and
Interlude 2
the stone
E
C#m
D
B
Verse 9
B
Well, I looked at the granite markers
Esus4
E
Those tributes to finality, to eternity
Esus4
E
And then I looked at myself here
B
Chicken scratching for my im mortality
Verse 10
B
E
In the church, they light the candles
Esus4
E
And the wax rolls down like tears
Esus4
There is the hope and
E
the hopelessness
B
I've witnessed thirty years
Verse 11
E
We're only particles of change I know,
I know
B
Orbiting around the sun
E
F#
But how can I have that point of view
F#sus4
When I'm al ways bound
and tied to someone
Verse 12
E
White flags of win ter chimneys
B
Wave truce against the moon
F#
F#sus4
In the mirrors of a modern bank
E
From the window of a hotel
Interlude 3
room
E
C#m
D
C#m
B
I'm traveling in
Verse 13
E
some vehicle
Esus4
E
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
B
Until love sucks me back that way
Outro 1
C#m
D
C#m
D
C#m
D
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC#m D B E Esus4...
C#m
D
B
E
Esus4
F#
F#sus4
Capo: 4
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