Edith And The Kingpin Chords by Joni Mitchell

[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _ [F] _
[Gm] _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ [Gm] _ [Eb] _ The big man arrives
_ [Bb] _ Disco dancers greet him
Playing flows cops greet him
Small town big man
Fresh lipstick [Ab] listening
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
Sophomore _ [Cm] _ [Gm] jive
From victims of [Ab] [Eb] typewriters
The band sounds like typewriters
The big man he's [C] not listening _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] His eyes hold Edith
His left [F] hand holds his [Dm] right
What does him [Gm] _ decide?
[Ab] That he grips [Gm] it [F] so _
_ [Dm] tight
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ Edith in the rain
The [Gm] past over girls are [Bb] conferring
The man with the diamond ring is purring
[Eb] A clause [Bb] for now withdrawn
[Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] One by one they [Cm] bring
[Bb] His renegade stories to her
[Cm] His crimes and his glories to her
In [Eb] challenge they [C] look _ on
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ Women he has [Bb] taken
Though [F] all too soon
He takes their [Gm] tired faces
_ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ Gently [F] to _ [G] the [F] spoon
[G] _ [Eb] _ _
Edith in his bed
A [Gm] plane in the rain is [Bb] humming
The wires in the walls are _ _ humming
[Gm] [Ab] Some song, [Fm] some mysterious [Gm] song
[Eb] _ [Gm] _ [Cm]
Fires in her _ [Gm] head
Beating frantic [Bb] and snow blind
[Eb] Romantic and [Cm] snow blind
_ She says his [C] crime _ belongs
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ Edith and the kingpin
Each [F] with charm to sway
Are [Dm] staring [Eb] eye to eye
[Gm] _ [Ab] They [Bb] dare [Gm] not look away
_ You know [Dm] they dare not [Cm] look _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _
_ [Gm] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _
_ [Gm] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [N] You know they dare not look _