• Song:

    Trouble Child

  • Artist:

    Joni Mitchell

  • Album:

    Travelogue (disc 1)

(intro) ( Bb5 C5 Bb5 C5 Bb5 )

D5                   C5
Up  in the sterilized room
           A5
Where they let you be lazy
F5                             C5
Know-ing your attitudes are wrong
              A5
And you gotta change, and it?s not easy

F5                               G5
Drag-ons shining with all values known
F5                                G5    F5  G5  C5
Daz-zling you, keeping you from your own
F5                             C5
Where is the lion in you to de-fy him
                 A5
When you?re this weak and this spacey?

   D5
So what are you gonna do about it
C5              A5
You can?t live life and you can?t leave it
   F5                            C5
Ad-vice and religion you can?t take it
          A5
You can?t seem to believe it

    F5                       G5
The pea-cock is afraid to pa-rade
       F5                      G5  F5  G5  C5
You?re un-der the thumb of a maid
    F5                                  C5
You real-ly can?t give love in this con-di-tion
          A5
Still you know how you need it

             C5     G5
Then open and close    you
                             A5
Then they talk like they know   you
               G5
They don?t know you
                           C5     G5
They?re friends and they?re foes too, trouble child,
G5                  D5          G5
  Brea-king like the waves at Malibu

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   D5
So why does it come as such a shock
C5                    A5
  To know you really have no one?
F5                        C5
On-ly a river of changing fa-ces
A5
   Looking for an ocean

     F5                          G5
They tric-kle through your leaky plans
        F5                G5  F5  G5
Another dream over the dam
C5          F5
And you?re ly-ing in some room
                  C5           A5
Feeling like your right to be hu-man
              G5
Is going over too

                  C5    G5
But some are gonna knock   you
                   A5
And some?ll try and   clock you
G5
 You know it?s really hard
  C5                 G5
To talk sense to you,   trouble child
G5                  D5         G5
   Breaking like the waves at Malibu

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