Edith and the Kingpin Joni Mitchell
I would not disagree with Howard Wright, and disagree ever so slightly with
version 2, but this is how I play it.
It is a bit easier and more simple to play on piano or Guitar and Bass
INTRO ? Cm7 / Ab maj7 / Bb2 add 6 / Cm7 Repeat
[Cm7]The big man arrives
[Gm7sus4]Disco dancers greet hi[Cm7/Ab]m
Plainclothes cops greet[Cm7/F] him
Small town, big man, fresh l[Cm7/Ab]ipstick glisteni[Cm7/Bb]ng
[Cm7]Sophomore jive
[Gm7sus4]From victims of typewriter[Cm7/Ab]s
The band sounds like typewri[Cm7/F]ters
The big ma[Cm7/Ab]n he's not listening [Cm7] Ooh [Dm7/C] Ooh etc
[Cm7/Ab]His eyes hold Edith
His left hand holds hi[G7sus4]s right[G7]
What does that hand [Ebmaj7]desire
[Cm7/Ab]That he grips it so[G7sus4] tight[G7]
Edith in the ring
The passed-over girls are conferring
The man with the diamond ring is purring
All claws for now withdrawn
One by one they bring
His renegade stories to her
His crimes and his glories to her
In challenge they look on
Women he has taken grow old too soon
He tilts their tired faces
Gently to the spoon
Edith in his bed
A plane in the rain is humming
The wires in the walls are humming
Some song-some mysterious song
Bars in her head
Beating frantic and snowblind
Romantic and snowblind
She says-his crime belongs
Edith and the Kingpin
Each with charm to sway
Are staring eye to eye
They dare not look away
You know they dare not look away
CODA Cm7 / Ab maj7 / Bb2 add 6 / Cm7 Repeat
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