Shadows and Light chords by
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

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Key: D major
Verse 1
A
Every picture has it's shadows
And it has some source of light
D
E
A
Blindness, blindness and sight
The perils of benefactors
The blessings of parasites
G
D
E
A
Blindness, blindness and sight
Threatened by all things
Devil of cruelty
Drawn to all things
Devil of delight
Mythical devil of the ever-present laws
D
A
laws
D
Governing blindness,
E
A
blindness and sight
Verse 2
A
Suntans in reservation
dining rooms
Pale miners in their lantern rays
Esus4
E
A
Night, night and day
Hostage smiles on presidents
Freedom scribbled in the subway
D
A
It's like night, night and day
Threatened by all things
D
E
A
God of cruelty
C
G
A
E
Drawn to all things
A
God of delight
C#
A
D
Mythical God of the everlasting laws
A
D
A
Governing day, day and night
Verse 3
A
C#m
Critics of all expression
D
Esus4
A
Judges in black and white
E
Saying it's wrong,
Esus4
E
A
say ing it's right
Compelled by prescribed standards
Or some ideals we fight
Bm
D
For wrong, wrong and right
A
Threatened by all things
C#
Man of cruelty, mark of Cain
A
Cdim
A
Drawn to all things
D
A
Man of delight, born again, born again
F#m
A
Man of the laws,
E
D
the ever broken laws
A
D
E
A
Governing wrong, wrong an d right
D
E
F#m
Governing wrong, wrong and right
D
A
Wrong and right

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