Skip to content
FreeGuitarTabs

Coyote

Joni Mitchell
Version1
90

Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 No  regrets Coyote, we just come from such different sets of circumstance
 
 
 I'm  up all night  in the studio while you're up early on your ranch
 
 
 
 You'll  be brushing  out a brood mare's tail while the sun is ascending
 
 
 
 And  I'll just be getting home with my reel to reel, there's no comprehending
 
 Just  how close to the bone and the skin and the  eyes  and the lips
 
 
 
 
 You  can get and  still feel so alone, and still feel related
 Like  stations in some relay,  you're not a
 
 
 Hit  and run driver no, no, racing away
 
 
 You  just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway
 
 
 
 
 We saw a farmhouse burning down, in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night
 And we rolled right past that tragedy, till we rolled into some roadhouse lights
 Where a local band was playin', locals were kickin' and shakin' on the floor
 The next thing I know that Coyote's at my door
 He pins me in the corner and he won't take "No!"
 He drags me out on the dance floor and we're dancin' close and slow
 Now he's got a woman at home, he's got another woman down the hall
 And he seems to want me anyway
 Why'd you have to get so drunk and lead me on that way
 You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway
 I looked the Coyote right in the face on the road to Baljennie near my old home town
 He went runnin' through the whisker wheat, chasin' some prize down
 And a hawk was playin with him, Coyote was jumpin' straight up and makin' passes
 He had those same eyes just like yours under your dark glasses
 Privately probing the public rooms, peeking through keyholes in numbered doors
 Where the players lick their wounds and take their temporary lovers
 And their pills and powders to get them through this passion play
 No regrets Coyote, I just get off up aways
 You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway
 Coyote's in the coffee shop, he's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs
 He picks up my scent on his fingers while he's watching the waitresses legs
 He's too far from the Bay of Fundy, Appaloosas and eagles and tides
 And the air conditioned cubicles and the carbon ribbon rides
 Are spelling it out so clear
 Either he's gonna have to stand and fight or take off out of here
 I tried to run away myself, to run away and wrestle with my ego
 And with this flame, you put here in this Eskimo
 In this hitcher, in this prisoner, of the fine white lines
 Of the white lines on the free, free way
 CHORDS:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gm11
F
E --0------0------0-------0-------7-----7-----5-----5-----|
C --0------2------0-------0-------7-----7-----5-----5-----|
F --0------2------0-------2-------7-----9-----5-----7-----|
D --0------2------0-------3-------7-----9-----5-----7-----|
G --0------0------5-------0-------7-----7-----5-----5-----|
C --0------0------3---------------7-----7-----5-----5-----|

Source: Songsterr · Rights holder? Request removal.

Readable chord sheet for Coyote by Joni Mitchell

[Cadd][D] [Dm11]
 [C]  [Cadd][D] [Dm11]
 [C]   [Cadd][D] [Dm11]
 [C]  [Cadd][D] [Dm11]
 [C]

 [Dm9]
 [Eb]
 [Fmaj9]
 [G]                                    [Dm11]
N[C]o regrets Coyote, we just come from such different sets of circumstance
    [Cadd][D]                     [Dm11]
 [C]           [Am11]
I[G]'m up all n[G]ight in the studio while you're up early on your ranch
        [Gm11]
 [F]
 [F]                 [Gm11]
Y[F]ou'll be brush[F]ing out a brood mare's tail while the sun is ascending
                  [Cadd][D]               [Dm11]
 [C]
 [Dm9]
A[Eb]nd I'll just be getting home with my reel to reel, there's no comprehending

 [Fmaj9]
J[G]ust how close to the bone and the skin and t[Cadd]he e[D]yes and the lips
       [Dm11]
 [C]  [Am11]
 [G]
 [G]     [Gm11]
Y[F]ou can get an[F]d still feel so alone, and still feel related
[Gm11]
L[F]ike stations in some rel[F]ay, you're not a
[Cadd][D]             [Dm11]
 [C]
 [Dm9]
H[Eb]it and run driver no, no, racing away

 [Fmaj9]
 [G]                                                             [Cadd][D]   [Dm11]
Y[C]ou just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway

[Cadd][D] [Dm11]
 [C]  [Cadd][D] [Dm11]
 [C]   [Cadd][D] [Dm11]
 [C]  [Cadd][D] [Dm11]
 [C]

We saw a farmhouse burning down, in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night
And we rolled right past that tragedy, till we rolled into some roadhouse lights
Where a local band was playin', locals were kickin' and shakin' on the floor
The next thing I know that Coyote's at my door
He pins me in the corner and he won't take "No!"
He drags me out on the dance floor and we're dancin' close and slow
Now he's got a woman at home, he's got another woman down the hall
And he seems to want me anyway
Why'd you have to get so drunk and lead me on that way
You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway

I looked the Coyote right in the face on the road to Baljennie near my old home town
He went runnin' through the whisker wheat, chasin' some prize down
And a hawk was playin with him, Coyote was jumpin' straight up and makin' passes
He had those same eyes just like yours under your dark glasses
Privately probing the public rooms, peeking through keyholes in numbered doors
Where the players lick their wounds and take their temporary lovers
And their pills and powders to get them through this passion play
No regrets Coyote, I just get off up aways
You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway

Coyote's in the coffee shop, he's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs
He picks up my scent on his fingers while he's watching the waitresses legs
He's too far from the Bay of Fundy, Appaloosas and eagles and tides
And the air conditioned cubicles and the carbon ribbon rides
Are spelling it out so clear
Either he's gonna have to stand and fight or take off out of here
I tried to run away myself, to run away and wrestle with my ego
And with this flame, you put here in this Eskimo
In this hitcher, in this prisoner, of the fine white lines
Of the white lines on the free, free way

CHORDS:
  [Dm11]
 [C] [Cadd][D]
 [Dm9]
 [Eb]
 [Fmaj9]
 [G] [Am11]
 [G]
 [G]  [Gm11]
 [F]    [F]
E --0------0------0-------0-------7-----7-----5-----5-----|
C --0------2------0-------0-------7-----7-----5-----5-----|
F --0------2------0-------2-------7-----9-----5-----7-----|
D --0------2------0-------3-------7-----9-----5-----7-----|
G --0------0------5-------0-------7-----7-----5-----5-----|
C --0------0------3---------------7-----7-----5-----5-----|

More songs by Joni Mitchell

Browse more →