Trouble Child
Joni MitchellVersion1
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Chords in this song
Strum
D-DU-UDU
(3x)
Up in the sterilized room
Where they let you be lazy
Know-ing your attitudes are wrong
And you gotta change, and its not easy
Drag-ons shining with all values known
Daz-zling you, keeping you from your own
Where is the lion in you to de-fy him
When youre this weak and this spacey?
So what are you gonna do about it
You cant live life and you cant leave it
Ad-vice and religion you cant take it
You cant seem to believe it
The pea-cock is afraid to pa-rade
Youre un-der the thumb of a maid
You real-ly cant give love in this con-di-tion
Still you know how you need it
Then open and close you
Then they talk like they know you
They dont know you
Theyre friends and theyre foes too, trouble child,
Brea-king like the waves at Malibu
(3x)
So why does it come as such a shock
To know you really have no one?
On-ly a river of changing fa-ces
Looking for an ocean
They tric-kle through your leaky plans
Another dream over the dam
And youre ly-ing in some room
Feeling like your right to be hu-man
Is going over too
But some are gonna knock you
And somell try and clock you
You know its really hard
To talk sense to you, trouble child
Breaking like the waves at Malibu
(2x)
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Readable chord sheet for Trouble Child by Joni Mitchell
[Bb] [C] [Bb] [C] [Bb] [C] [Bb] [C] [Bb] (3x) [D/C]Up in the sterilized [C]room Where they [Am7]let you be lazy [F7]Know-ing your attitudes are wro[C]ng And you gotta [Am7]change, and its not easy [F7]Drag-ons shining with all values [G]known [F7]Daz-zling you, keeping you from yo[G]ur ow[F]n [G] [C] [F7]Where is the lion in you to de-[C]fy him When youre this [Am7]weak and this spacey? So [D/C]what are you gonna do about it [C]You cant live [Am7]life and you cant leave it Ad-[F7]vice and religion you cant ta[C]ke it You cant [Am7]seem to believe it The [F7]pea-cock is afraid to pa-[G]rade Youre [F7]un-der the thumb of a ma[G]id [F] [G] [C] You [F7]real-ly cant give love in this con-[C]di-tion Still you [Am7]know how you need it Then open and[C] close[G7/B] you Then they talk like they know[Am7] you They dont know[G] you Theyre friends and theyre[C] foes [G7/B]too, trouble child, [G/D] Brea-king like the [Dsus4]waves at Malibu[G] [Bb] [C] [Bb] [C] [Bb] [C] [Bb] [C] [Bb] (3x) So [D/C]why does it come as such a shock [C] To know you really [Am7]have no one? [F7]On-ly a river of changing [C]fa-ces [Am7] Looking for an ocean They [F7]tric-kle through your leaky [G]plans Another [F7]dream over the dam[G] [F] [G] [C]And youre [F7]ly-ing in some room Feeling like your [C]right to be [Am7]hu-man Is going over [G]too But some are gonna[C] knoc[G7/B]k you And somell try and[Am7] clock you [G] You know its really hard To[C] talk sense to you[G7/B], trouble child [G/D] Breaking like the [Dsus4]waves at Malib[G]u [Bb] [C] [Bb] [C] [Bb] [C] [Bb] [C] [Bb] (2x)