Borderline chords by Joni Mitchell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:

E    B    C#m   B
E    B    C#m   B

Verse 1:

E   A          E
Everybody looks so ill at ease
A           E
So distrustful so displeased
         A
Running down the table
     B       B7
I see a borderline
    Em/B     B7
Like a barbed wire fence
Em/B         B7
Strung tight strung tense
Em/B
Prickling with pretense
 G#m7
A borderline

F#      B        F#    B   F#
Why are you smirking at your friend?
      B
Is this to be the night when
G#m           F# E
All well-wishing ends?
   A       E
All credibility revoked?
A        E
Thin skin thick jokes!
            A
Can we blame it on the smoke,
   B   E
This borderline?

Interlude:

E    B    C#m   B
E    B    C#m   B

Verse 2:

E   A         E
Every bristling shaft of pride
      A
Church or nation
    E
Team or tribe
          A
Every notion we subscribe to
      B      B7
Is just a borderline
    Em/B      B7
Good or bad we think we know
   Em/B         B7
As if thinking makes things so!
   Em/B           G#m
All convictions grow along a borderline
F#      B     F#    B F#
Smug in your jaded expertise
   B
You scathe the wonder world
     G#m        F#
And you praise barbarity
E     A     E
In this illusionary place
   A         E
This scared hard-edged rat race
        A
All liberty is laced with
B   E
Borderlines

Interlude:

E    B    C#m   B
E    B    C#m   B

Verse 3:

E    A      E
Every income every age
    A       E
Every fashion-plated rage
           A
Every measure every gauge
      B       B7
Creates a borderline
    Em/B        B7
Every stone thrown through glass
    Em/B       B7
Every mean-streets-kick ass
    Em/B
Every swan caught on the grass
       G#m
Will draw a borderline
F#      B
You snipe so steady
       F#    B  F#
You snub so snide
       B
So ripe and ready
         G#m  F# E
To diminish and deride!
      A        E
You're so quick to condescend
  A     E
My opinionated friend
             A
All you deface all you defend
      B   E   B  C#m
Is just a borderline
    B    E   B  C#m
Just a borderline
     B    E   B  C#m
Another borderline
     B    E
Just a borderline