Chords for Joni Mitchell ~ I Had a King Live

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This is sort of a common modern day fairy tale.
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_ [C] _ _ [E] _ [A] [D] I [A] had a king in [Bb] a tenement [C] castle.
Ladies [Em] taken [C] to painting, the pastel [Am] was brown. _
He's taken [F] the curtains down.
[Am] _ _ He's swept with the broom of content, and the rooms have an empty [B] _ [A] ring.
He's cleaned with the tears of a nap to the fears, [Am] no blather's still. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] I can't go [A] back up there anymore.
[D] You know my keys [A] won't fit the door.
[D] You know my [A] thoughts don't fit the wall.
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_ _ [D] They never can. _ _
[A] _ I had a king dressed [D] in drip [A]-dry and [C] paisley.
Ladies taken to say, I'm crazy [A] and blind.
_ _ He lives in [F] another _ _ [Am] time. _
Ladies in gay homes feel blush while he sings them a war's [E] end wine.
But [A] I am mind and place.
I can never [Am] become that kind.
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_ I can't go back there anymore.
_ [D] You know my [A] keys won't fit the door.
You [D] know my [A] thoughts don't fit the _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] wall.
[A] They never can. _ _ _
[C] I had a marriage [A] to pursue. _ _ _
_ Beware of [F] the power of news. _
[Am] _ There's no one to blame.
No _ one to blame.
There's a traitor here.
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The [Am] king is in the grove, and the queen is on the run.
Till the end of the [B] year.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] I can't go [A] back there anymore.
[D] You know my [A] keys won't fit the door.
[D] You know [A] my thoughts _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] [D] don't fit the wall.
They never can.
_ _ [A] _ [Am] _ They [C] never can.
_ [A] [D] They never can.
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