Chinese Cafe Unchained Melody chords by Joni Mitchell

"Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody"
by Joni Mitchell

>From the album "Wild Things Run Fast" (1982)

Standard tuning.

All original work - comments, corrections, questions
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Intro:

E-------------------------------------------------------------
B--3-----5---3------5---7---3------3---------5---7---(strum D)
G-------------------------------------2---6-------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------

Verses:

    D                      Gmaj9                   Am7
  xx0232                   300202                 002010
1:Caught in the middle... middle class, we're... wild in the old days
2:Uranium money is.........old home town now.... sleek concrete
3:Christmas is....      ..Carol's lawn...    ...childhood games

                 Gmaj9            Em                   C6/9
                 300202         022000                x32233
1: Birth of rock'n'roll days.... Now your kids are... and my child's a
stranger
2: Tearing the old landmarks ....brave little parks... Indian land again
3: With kids nearly grown...  ...so fast...         ...turn of a page...

     Am7        Gmaj9
   002010       300202
1:I bore her... raise her.
2:How long?.... business man.
3:We look... ...when we were those kids' age

Bridge:
                   Em                  D
                 022000              xx0232
Nothing lasts for long, nothing lasts for long
                C6/9
              x32233
Nothing lasts for long...

Chorus:

Am7                          Em
002010                      022000
Down at the Chinese Cafe... dreamin on our dimes.

Em
022000
We'd be playin...

   Cadd9        Am7      Fmaj7
  x30033      002010     003210
1: Oh      my love, my   darling...
2: You give.. love, so   sweetly...

Fmaj7
003210  xx0232
One more time...

After "we'd be playin" on third verse, segue to Unchained Melody:


   Cadd9        Am7      Fmaj7            G               C
  x30033      002010     003210        320003          X32010
   Oh      my love, my   darling, I've hungered... your touch

   Am7          G
002010       320003
A long, lonely time

   C             Am7     Fmaj7       G        C
x32010         002010  003210    320003   x32010
And time goes... by,  so slowly... time... so much

Am7           Em
002010       022000
Are you still mine?

   C               G        Am7
x32010          320003   002010
I need your love...      I need your love

        F                G
     x03211            320003
God speed your love....

     D
  xx0232
To me.....

(...time goes, where does the time go? i wonder where the...)

What a heartwarming song on middle age. I hope you enjoy my submission.

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