Chords for Joni Mitchell The River Live

_ This is a song that I wrote a year ago, just before [C] last Christmas, and it's [G] _ _ [D] _
_ a _ very sad song. _
_ [G] Get yourself in a kind of a melancholy before Christmas spirit.
Here we go.
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ It's coming on Christmas, they're cutting down trees, you know, they're putting up reindeer
and singing [D] songs of [C] joy and _ [Am] peace.
Oh, I wish I had a river _ I could skate [G]
away [C] on.
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[C] But it don't snow here, it stays pretty green.
I'm gonna make a lot of money, then I'm gonna quit this crazy [Am] scene.
I wish I had a river I could skate [G] away on. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] I wish I had a river so [C] _ [G] long, then [C] I would teach my feet [F] to [Em] fly.
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[G] _ _ [D] Oh, [C] I wish I had a river _ [G] _ _ I could [F] skate away on. _ _ _ _ _
I made my _ [C] baby cry, _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
and [C] I'm so hard to handle.
Sometimes I'm selfish and I'm sad, now I've got a lost-and-miss baby that I _ had.
[Am] Oh, I wish I had a river I [D] could [G] skate away on. _ _ _ _ _
[C] Tried hard to help me, put me at ease.
Lord, you love me so good, it made me [D]
weak [C] in the knees.
[Am] Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate [C] _
[G] away on.
_ _ _ Oh, [F]
I wish I had a river [G] so _ long, [C] I would teach my feet [F] to [Em] fly.
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_ [Dm] Oh, I [C] wish I had a [Dm] river [G] _ _ I could skate [F] away on.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I made my baby [C] say _ _ _ goodbye.
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[C] It's coming on Christmas, and cutting down trees.
They're putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and [Am] peace.
Oh, I wish I had a river I _ _ could skate [G] away on. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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