Hejira chords by Joni Mitchell (Ver. 2)

• Capo on 4th
• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Verse 1:
G
 I'm traveling in some vehicle
C
 I'm sitting in some cafe
F             C
A defector from the petty wars
      G
That shell shock love away
    G           F
There's comfort in melancholy
C
When there's no need to explain
              F
It's just as natural as the weather
         G
In this moody sky today
    C
In our possessive coupling
         G       D
So much could not be expressed
    C        D
So now I'm returning to myself
    D
These things that you and I suppressed
     C
I see something of myself in everyone
       G
Just at this moment of the world
           D
As snow gathers like bolts of lace
       C
Waltzing on a ballroom girl

Am F Bb

🎸 Verse 2:
D                 G
 You know it never has been easy
C
 Whether you do or you do not resign
      F          C
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
         G
Or stick to some straighter line
               G         C
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
F             C
 They're either going to thaw out or freeze
              C
Listen ... Strains of Benny Goodman
                F
Coming through the snow and the pinewood trees
  C
I'm porous with travel fever
                G
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
         C
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
D
Can set up trembling in my bones
   C
I know no one's going to show me everything
        G
We all come and go unknown
           D
Each so deep and superficial
        C
Between the forceps and the stone

Am Bb F

🎸 Verse 3:
G
 Well I looked at the granite markers
C
 Those tribute to finality to eternity
C
 And then I looked at myself here
             G
Chicken scratching for my immortality
D
 In the church they light the candles
C
 And the wax rolls down like tears
C
 There's the hope and the hopelessness
        G
I've witnessed thirty years
       C
We're only particles of change I know I know
    G
Orbiting around the sun
            C
But how can I have that point of view
D
 When I'm always bound and tied to someone
        C
White flags of winter chimneys
       G
Waving truce against the moon
         D
In the mirrors of a modern bank
           C
From the window of a hotel room

Am Bb F

🎸 Outro:
G
 I'm traveling in some vehicle
C
 I'm sitting in some cafe
F             C
A defector from the petty wars
      G
Until love sucks me back that way

Coda:
Am Bb F
Am Bb F
(Repeat and fade)