Trouble Child- Joni Mitchell
Tabbed by Robin Young
Chords:
Am7: 002010
Bb: 24442
C: 032010
D/C: 03X232
Dsus4: 000233
F: 133211
F7: 003210
G: 3X0003
G/D: 000433
G7/B: 020032
Intro:
Bb – C – Bb – C – Bb
C – Bb – C – Bb (3x)
D/C C
Up in the sterilized room
Am7
Where they let you be lazy
F7 C
Know-ing your attitudes are wrong
Am7
And you gotta change, and it’s not easy
F7 G
Drag-ons shining with all values known
F7 G F G C
Daz-zling you, keeping you from your own
F7 C
Where is the lion in you to de-fy him
Am7
When you’re this weak and this spacey?
D/C
So what are you gonna do about it
C Am7
You can’t live life and you can’t leave it
F7 C
Ad-vice and religion you can’t take it
Am7
You can’t seem to believe it
F7 G
The pea-cock is afraid to pa-rade
F7 G F G C
You’re un-der the thumb of a maid
F7 C
You real-ly can’t give love in this con-di-tion
Am7
Still you know how you need it
C G7/B
Then open and close you
Am7
Then they talk like they know you
G
They don’t know you
C G7/B
They’re friends and they’re foes too, trouble child,
G/D Dsus4 G
Brea-king like the waves at Malibu
Bb – C – Bb – C – Bb
C – Bb – C – Bb (3x)
D/C
So why does it come as such a shock
C Am7
To know you really have no one?
F7 C
On-ly a river of changing fa-ces
Am7
Looking for an ocean
F7 G
They tric-kle through your leaky plans
F7 G F G
Another dream over the dam
C F7
And you’re ly-ing in some room
C Am7
Feeling like your right to be hu-man
G
Is going over too
C G7/B
But some are gonna knock you
Am7
And some’ll try and clock you
G
You know it’s really hard
C G7/B
To talk sense to you, trouble child
G/D Dsus4 G
Breaking like the waves at Malibu
Bb – C – Bb – C – Bb
C – Bb – C – Bb (2x)
