Chords for Joni Mitchell - Blue - Live 1974

_ _ _ _ [Bm] Blue _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ Songs are like tattoos _
You know I've [B] been to sea [E] before _
[Bm] _ [F#] _ _ Crown [E] and anchor me
Or [A] let me [G] sail home
[E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ Hey blue
There is a song for [F#] you to
Ink on a pen
_ _ _ Underneath the skin
An empty space to [E] fill _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] Well there's so many sinking
Now [E] you gotta keep thinking
You [Bm] can't make it through these waves
Acid booze and [D] ass needles [E] guns and
Lots of laughs
_ _ _ _ Lots of [G] laughs
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
[D] _ [B] Everybody's saying that hell's a heathless way to go
Well I don't think so
But I'm gonna take [A] a look around [Bm] at the blue
_ _ _ _ [B] I love [F#m] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] blue
_ Here is [F#] a shell for you
Inside [E] you'll hear a [F#] sigh
A [Em] foggy lullaby _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] There is a song from [Bm] _ me
[F#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] All _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ right.
_ _ [G#m] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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[D] That's one thing that's always been a major [N] difference
between the performing arts to me and being a painter.
Like a painter does a painting, and he does a painting.
That's it.
He's had the joy of creating it, and he hangs it on some wall.
Somebody buys it, somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it,
and it sits up in a loft somewhere till he dies.
But nobody ever says to him, nobody ever said to Van Gogh,
Paint a starry night again, man.
You know, he painted it, that was it.
[Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ Let's sing this song together, [F#] okay?
[E] This song doesn't sound good with one lonely voice.
It sounds good with the more voices on it the better,
and the more out-of-tune voices on it the better.
_ [A] _
It was made for out-of-tune singing, this song. _ _