Not To Blame chords by Joni Mitchell

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

♫ Intro:
C#m7 F#m7
A B E
A E


♫ Verse 1:
B
The story hit the news
        E  A E
From coast to coast
B
They said you beat the girl
        E
You loved the most
F#m7       A
Your charitable acts
        E  A E
Seemed out of place
      F#m7
With the beauty
      A         E  A E
With your fist marks on her face
G#m          B
Your buddies all stood by
         A
They bet their fortunes
        E A
And their fame
B

That she was out of line
       E
And you were not to blame

♫ Interlude:
A E
A E
A E

♫ Verse 2:
B
Six hundred thousand doctors
            E   A E
Are putting on rubber gloves
B
And they're poking
             E
At the miseries made of love
          F#m7
They say they're learning
    A         E   A E
How to spot the battered wives
F#m7      A
Among all the women
                 E   A E
They see bleeding through their lives
G#m           B
I bleed for your perversity
    A          E
These red words that make a stain
     A      E
On your white-washed claim that
B
She was out of line
       E
And you were not to blame

♫ Interlude:
A E
A E
A E

♫ Verse 3:
B
I heard your baby say
          E  A E
When he was only three
B
"Daddy let's get some girls
        E
One for you and one for me"
F#m7        A       E  A E
His mother had the frailty you despise
     F#m7       A     E  A E
And the looks you love to drive to suicide
G#m        B
Not one wet eye around
   A       E A E
Her lonely little grave
   B
Said "He was out of line girl
         E
You were not to blame"

♫ Outro:
A E
A E
A E
B A E
A E