Lirik dan Chord Lagu Not To Blame - Joni Mitchell

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Joni Mitchell, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Not To Blame”.

Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1994 melalui label rekaman Reprise Records.

“Not To Blame” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Turbulent Indigo.

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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Not To Blame” dari Joni Mitchell:

[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