Song: Amelia
Album: Hejira
Tabbed by: Wiktor Kołowiecki
E-mail: victoriumist@gmail.com
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Note: I know these aren't the exact exotic chords of Joni,
but at least you can play it in a standard tuning, enjoy!
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Intro:
FCBb-GG
I was driving across the burning desert
Bb
When I spotted six jet planes
CBmGG4G
Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain
CG
It was the hexagram of the heavens
BmAmG
it was the strings of my guitar
FBbF
Amelia it was just a false alarm
FCBb-GG
The drone of flying engines
Bb
Is a song so wild and blue
CBmGG4G
It scrambles time and seasons if it gets thru to you
CG
Then your life becomes a travelogue
BmAmG
Of picture post card charms
FBbF
Amelia it was just a false alarm
FCBb-GG
People will tell you where they've gone
Bb
They'll tell you where to go
CBmGG4G
But till you get there yourself you never really know
CG
Where some have found their paradise
BmAmG
Other's just come to harm
FBbF
Oh, Amelia it was just a false alarm
FCBb-GG
I wish that he was here tonight
Bb
It's so hard to obey
CBmGG4G
His sad request of me to kindly stay away
CG
So this is how I hide the hurt
BmAmG
As the road leads cursed and charmed
FBbF
I tell Amelia it was just a false alarm
FCBb-G
A ghost of aviation
She was swallowed by the sky
Or by the sea like me she had a dream to fly
Like Icarus ascending
On beautiful foolish arms
Amelia it was just a false alarm
Maybe I've never really loved
I guess that is the truth
I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude
And looking down on everything
I crashed into his arms
Amelia it was just a false alarm
I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel
To shower off the dust
And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust
I dreamed of 747s
Over geometric farms
Dreams Amelia - dreams and false alarms
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24.07.2013
Lublin, Poland