Refuge Of The Roads Chords by Joni Mitchell

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_ _ _ _ I met a [C] friend of spirit.
_ _ [Gm] _ He [C]
drank and womanized.
Then I sat before his sanity.
[Am] I was [Bb] holding back from crying.
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ He saw my [Em] complications _ [Am] and [Gm] he _ [Am] mirrored me [C] back simplified.
[Am] [Bb] And without _ [F] _ [C] perfection would [Am] always [Bb] be denied.
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_ _ _ [F] Heart _ _ [C] and humor _ and humility, he [F] said, will lighten [C] up your heavy load. _
[F] [Em] I left [Am] him then [Bb] for the refuge _ of [C] _ the road. _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] I fell in with some [Em] _ [Am] drifters [Gm] on _
[Am] _ [C] a beach town.
[Gm] When [F] Dixie, [C] Colcats, and [Bb] Highway hand me downs.
[F] _ _ _ [Dm] And I wound up [C] fixing dinner _ _ [Gm] for [F] them [C] in Boston gym.
_ [Gm] I wound up with [F] affection [C] _ thinking back [Bb] down the _ [F] roads to them.
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] [C] The nets were _ overflowing _ in the [F] Gulf of [C] Mexico.
_ [F] They [Em] were _ [Am] overflowing in [Bb] the refuge _ of _ [F] [C] the roads. _ _
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_ _ [F] There [Dm] was spring [Am] along [Em] the _ [C] ditches.
[Gm] There were [F] good times in [C] the cities.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [F]
[C] Radiant happiness was [Bb] all so light [F] and _ easy.
[Dm] Till I started [C] _
[Em] analyzing [C] and [Gm] I brought on [F]
[C] always.
_ A [Gm] _ thunder [F] and [C] a judgment was [F] [Bb] gathering in my [F] gaze.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [C] And it made most people nervous.
_ [F] They just didn't want to [C] know what [Em] I was seeing [Am]
[Bb] in the refuge _ _ _ _ [Am]
of the [C] roads. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F] I pulled [C] up into a _ forest.
[Bb] _ Crickets [F] clicking in [C] the ferns.
[Am] [Bb] Like a wheel [F]
[C] of fortune I [Bb] heard my fate turn, turn, turn.
[F] [Dm] And I went running [C] down [Em] a white sand [Am] road.
[Gm] _ _ _ [F] _
[C] Last year, _ [Gm] _ running [F] _
[C] _ blues to [Bb] the _ innocence [F] year.
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[F] _ _ _ [Bb] [C] These are the clouds of _ _ _ [F] Michelangelo.
Muscular with [C] gauze and sun gold [Em] shine on your witness [Am]
[Bb] in the refuge _ of _ [F]
[C] the roads. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ [Dm] In a highway [Am] through [Em] the station _ [C] _ [Bb] over the [F] month [C] of June
_ [Bb] was a photograph [C] of the earth taken calm [Bb] and bad from the [F] moon.
And you [Dm] couldn't [C] see [Em] the city _ [C] [Gm] on that [F] mild _ [C] bowling ball [Am] _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _
_ [C] highway or near [Bb] least of [F] all.
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[F] _ _ [Bb] You [C] couldn't see these cold water restrooms or [F] this baggage [C] overload.
_ [Em] Westbound and rolling, [Gm] taking refuge _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C]
in the road. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ _ And you couldn't [C] _
see the city on that mild bowling ball highway [G] or _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Db] near least of all.
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