Chords for Ani DiFranco - J

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_ [Em] _ _ [C] Can't sit on my porch and smoke [G] a j, _ [F#m] I remember how peaceful life [Em] can be
[C] But all night long are a [G] bunch of pushers
[F#m] Selling drugs right there on [Em] my TV
_ _ [C] Drugs that whether or [G] not I buy
[F#m] Are gonna end up in my [E] water supply
[C] Along with who knows what else [G] who knows when?
[F#m] Just gotta take a deep breath [Em] and drink it in
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_ _ _ [C] And round here if there's one [G] thing people know
[F#] It's that government ain't there for you.
[Em] It's all for show
[C] And I'm trying to tell them [G] it don't have to be so [D] but I can understand [E] their
Confidence is [C] low cuz round here people [G] so high they can't [F#m] see
over the tops [Em] of the tall pine [A] trees
[C] down to the mouth [G] of the
Mississippi
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_ _ _ _ [D] [C] Well blood [G] ignited in a blighted sky
[F#m] Blood on the water [Em] like we all could die
[A] [C] Blood in the [G] reeds glistening in the [F#m] Sun blood on our [E] hands each and every [Em] one
[C]
Hearing the calm [G] before the [D] wars when the earth shrugs [E] us off like [A] dinosaurs
[C] Hearing the [G] sunset days of your [F#] first signs [Em] watching a show Oh
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Goddess come and lift [D] us
here in
[A] Louisiana _ _ [D] in the [A] gut where hunches [D] come from a message goes out loud [A] as you can
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_ [C] Yeah, I thought we'd have [G] come more far somehow
[D] Since the changing of the [Em] guard and all [C] I mean dude could be [G] FDR right now
and [F#] instead he's just [Em] shifting his weight and
[C] The disappointment [G] is the knockout blow
_ [F#m] filmed in [Em] torture a
Slow-mo.
[C] Oh, please come [G] where I can see don't let the [F#] poison [Em] get the best of me
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[Em] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [A] And _ Here _ in
Louisiana _ _ in the gut where hunches come [D] from a [A] message goes out loud
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_ _ _ [C] Yeah
Yeah, truth is foretelling [G] truth is foretold
[F#] Truth is for those [E] with the guts to [C] behold.
We got vampires down [G] here in Louisiana
[F#m] We need voodoo dolls.
[E] We need talisman.
[C] We need wooden sticks [G] and shards of light
[F#m] We need harbingers [Em] riding through the night.
[C] We need fountain pens.
[G] We need whale harpoons
[F#m] To overthrow [E] the oil [C] tycoons
There's no fish in the [G] water.
No birds in the [Bm] sky.
No life [F#] in the [Em] soil
No into the [C] life no time like the [G] present and it's passing us [F#] back
But it's never too late [Em] never too late to try [C] because if we all had to change
[G] We all just would [F#] and we would move closer [E] and that would be good [C] and we would buy local and [G] we would buy less
[F#m] And we realize that wasn't our [Em] happiness
_ [C] No, that [G] wasn't our happiness
_ [F#] No, that [Em] wasn't our happiness
[C] No, that wasn't [G] our [E] happiness
[F#] No, that [Em] wasn't
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_ _ _ [A] And goddess come and lift us [A] here in deepest
Louisiana Oh
Come and lift us here in deepest
_ Yeah _ _ _
_ _ _ Here in deepest
Louisiana in the gut where hunches come from a message goes out loud [E] as you care
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