Chords for Joni Mitchell - Harry's House/Centerpiece

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[C] _ He braves [Eb] on the runway _ [F]
as [Gm] the wheels set [Bb] down
[D] He takes [F] his baggage [Bb] off the carousel
And takes a taxi into [Eb] town _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ Yellow [G]
[Eb] schools of taxi fishes
[F] _ Jonah and the [Gm] ticking quail
Caught up [F] at the lights in the [Eb] fishnet windows
_ Of blooming day oaks
_ _ _ _ _ Watching [C] those high-fashion _ girls
[Gm] _
[Eb] _ Skinny black models with raving [Gm] curls
And beauty [F] parlor blondes with credit card [Eb] eyes
Looking for the chic and the fancy [C] to buy
_ He _ _ _
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[C] _ _ opens up his [Eb] suitcase
In [Fm] the [C] continental [Ab] _ suite
And [Dm] people [Am] _ [Eb] thirty stories down
Look like colored currents in the street _
A _ _ _ [C] _ helicopter lands [Eb] on the Pan Am roof
[Cm] Like a dragonfly on [Ab] a tomb
_ [Dm] And _ businessmen [Eb] in button _ _ -downs
Press into conference rooms
_ _ _ Battalions [C] of paper-minded [Eb] males
Talking commodities and sales
While [Cm] they're _ _ [F] paperwives and they're [Bb] paper [C] [Gm] kids _
[Eb] Paper the walls to keep their gut [C]
reactions [F] hidden _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ Yellow checkers [Eb] for the kitchen _ _
[Cm] Climbing high before the [Ab] bath
She is [F] _ lost in house [Eb] and gardens _
He's caught up in chief of [Bb] staff
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] He drifts off [Eb] into the memory
_ [Cm] Of the way she looked in [Ab] school
With [F] her body [Eb] oiled and _ shining
_ At the public swimming pool _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Gm] _ Oh, _ [C] the _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [G] _ [F] _
[Eb] _ _ [Ebm] _ [Ab] _ [Gm] _ _ [Dm] _ [Em]
way the [B] pretty [E] _ thing he [Gb] did
[G] Made [Gm] all [C] through my [G] love [F] entries
[Em] _ [Gm] _ _ Unveiled and all my dreams [Am] around
[Gm] _ _
_ [G] _ _ This [A] will [Em] never [D] cease
[E] _ _ _ [Am] Cause nothing's any good _ [Gb] [Dm] without
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_ _ [Em] _ [Gm] Baby, [E] you're my [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] [G] centerpiece _
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_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [D] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ Behind _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
a house [Em] and gardens [E] _
[Am] somewhere
[E] _ Along [Bb] a [G] [C] country road I've [Dm] [C] been
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[E] Little _ potty [Am] [C]-dotted _ _
[Am] youngster
[E] _ No, [Bb] we can't really [C] find [Dm] _ dreams
[E] Cause _
_ [A] _ [C] nothing's any good without _ [Am] _ you
[Gm] _ Baby, you're my _ [G] _ centerpiece
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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I said, get down!
[C] Nothing's any good.
_ _ Let me be home, [Eb] Harry!
Nothing's any good.
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Shining hair and shining skin _
[Eb] _ Shining as she reeled him in
[C] Could tell him [F] life she [Gm] did _ [Eb] today
_ Just what he could do with Harry's house
[Bb] And Harry's take-home [C] pay _ _ _
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