Chords for Joni Mitchell : Magdalene Laundries (KCRW 1994)

_ _ For you I understand that chords
Have an emotional meaning as it picked emotions very complex emotional meanings too complex for some people
They just go Joanie's weird chords
I always like to think that Americans unlike Brazilians say
Brazilians can take a lot of complex emotion being an emotional people
It's at the root of the in the peasant you know there
I always think why can't Americans take that much rhythmic sophistication that much harmonics is sophistication
They seem to like their tragedy minor and their happiness major and the most they can handle is a seventh and anything after that is
weird whereas like
Because I invent these open tunings that I play in these modalities a lot of times specifically for the lyric
trying to avoid
tragic statements underscored with minors
You know that's generally the pattern _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ I was an unmarried girl.
[F#] _ _ I
Just turned 27
When _ [A] _ they sent me to the sisters [E] for the way men looked at me
[C#] _ _ _ [A] _ _ Branded as a Jezebel [E] I knew [C#] I was not bound for [F#] heaven
_ [A] I'd be casting [E] shame into the Magdalene
_ _ _ _ Laundry's
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ most girls come here pregnant
_ [F#] _ _ some by their own fathers
_ [A] _ _ _ Bridget got that belly by
[F#] _ Parish priest _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ We're trying to get things white as snow [F#] all of us.
Whoa they gotten daughters
_ _ [A] In the steaming stains of the [E] Magdalene _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ Prostitutes and destitutes [F#] and temptresses like me
_ _ [D] _ _ Fallen women
_ [F#] Sentenced into dreamless drudgery _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] Why do they call this heartless place [F#] our lady of charity _
_ _ [D] our charity _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ These bloodless brides of Jesus if they had [F#] just once
_ Glimpsed their groom then they'd [A] worn
And they dropped the stones concealed behind [F#] their rosaries _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ They wilt the grass they walk upon they [F#] leach the light out of a loom _ _
_ They'd [D] like to drive us down the [E] drain at the
Magdalene [A] on the [F#] reeds _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ Peg O'Connell died today
_ [F#] _ She was a cheeky girl flirt.
They just [A] stuffed her in a hole
Surely to God you'd think at least [F#] some bells should ring _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ One day I'm gonna die here too [F#] and they'll plant me [C#] in the dirt
_ _ [A] _ Like some rainbow that never blues
[E] _ [F#] Come any spring
_ _ _ [A] Not any spring _ _
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_ _ _ [A] [C#] Oh _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Not a spring
[A] _ _
_ _ _ Not a spring _
_ _ _ Not a spring _
_ _ _ Not a spring _ _
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