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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