Coyote — Joni Mitchell
Chords and lyrics for Coyote by Joni Mitchell (key of C).
Intro
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C]
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C]
Verse 1
[Dm9/Eb] No regrets Coyote, we just come from such different sets of circumstance
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] I'm up all night in the studio and you're up early on your ranch
[Gm11/F] [F] You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail while the sun is ascending
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] And I'll just be, getting home with my reel to reel,
[Dm9/Eb] There's no comprehending
Verse 2
[Fmaj9/G] Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes and the lips
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Am11/G] [G] You can get and still feel so alone, and still feel related
[Gm11/F] [F] Like stations in some relay, you're not a
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Dm9/Eb] Hit and run driver no, no, racing away
[Fmaj9/G] You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway
Instrumental
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C]
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C]
Verse 3
[Dm9/Eb] We saw a farmhouse burning down,
[Fmaj9/G] In the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] And we rolled right past that tragedy,
[Am11/G] [G] Till we turned into some roadhouse lights
[Gm11/F] [F] Where a local band was playin',
[Gm11/F] [F] [Gm11/F] Locals were up kickin' and shakin' on the floor
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Dm9/Eb] The next thing I know that Coyote's at my door
[Fmaj9/G] He pins me in the corner and he won't take "No!"
Verse 4
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Am11/G] [G] He drags me out on the dance floor and we're, dancin' close and slow
[Gm11/F] [F] [Gm11/F] Now he's got a woman at home, he's got another woman down the hall
[F] And he seems to want me anyway
Verse 5
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Dm9/Eb] Why'd you have to get so drunk and lead me on that way
[Fmaj9/G] You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway
Instrumental
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C]
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C]
Verse 6
[Dm9/Eb] [Fmaj9/G] I looked the Coyote right in the face, on the road to Baljennie
[Dm11/C] Near my old hometown
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Am11/G] [G] He went runnin' through the whisker wheat, chasin' some prize down
[Gm11/F] [F] And a hawk was playin with him,
[Gm11/F] [F] Coyote was jumpin' straight up and makin' passes
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Dm9/Eb] He had those same eyes just like yours, under your dark glasses
Verse 7
[Fmaj9/G] Privately probing the public rooms,
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] Peeking through keyholes in numbered doors
[Am11/G] [G] [Gm11/F] [F] Where the players lick their wounds and take their temporary lovers
[Gm11/F] [F] And their pills and powders to get them through this passion play
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Dm9/Eb] No regrets Coyote, I just get off up aways
[Fmaj9/G] You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway
Instrumental
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C]
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C]
Verse 8
[Dm9/Eb] [Fmaj9/G] [Dm11/C] Coyote's in the coffee shop, he's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] He picks up my scent on his fingers,
[Am11/G] [G] While he's watching the waitresses legs
[Gm11/F] [F] [Gm11/F] [F] He's too far from the Bay of Fundy, from Appaloosas and eagles and tides
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Dm9/Eb] And the air conditioned cubicles and the carbon ribbon rides
[Fmaj9/G] Are spelling it out so clear
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Am11/G] [G] Either he's gonna have to stand and fight or take off out of here
[Gm11/F] [F] [Gm11/F] [F] I tried to run away myself, to run away and wrestle with my ego
Verse 9
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Dm9/Eb] [Fmaj9/G] And with this flame, you put here in this Eskimo
Outro
[Fmaj9/G] In this hitcher, in this prisoner, of the fine white lines
[Fmaj9/G] Of the white lines on the free, free way
[Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C] [Cadd9] [Dm11/C]