From: spxhaw@astro.cf.ac.uk (Howard Wright) Furry Sings The Blues - Joni Mitchell ---------------------------------------------- from the album 'Hejira' tabbed by Howard Wright H.Wright@uk.ac.cf.astro You only need to know about 7 or 8 shapes to play this, so I'll start of by giving the shapes, then I'll write the chord names above the words so you know where the changes come. Tuning (low to high) : C G D F Bb D (For the shapes below I'll write 'B' for Bb, for obvious reasons...) CGDFBD CGDFBD CGDFBD CGDFBD CGDFBD 33xxxx 55xxxx 777000 0x7777 002220 Eb5 F5 Gm9 F/C Cadd2 CGDFBD CGDFBD 002020 333000 Cadd2add4 Bb/Eb Intro : -------- Eb5 F5 Gm9 Eb5 F5 F/C Cadd2 Cadd2add4 Cadd2 Cadd2add4 Verse : -------- F/C Cadd2 Cadd2add4 Old Beale street is coming down Bb/Eb Sweetie's snack bar boarded up know

And^Gm9 there goes the tailor, and the shine boy's gone ^Gm9Faded out with rag time blues

^F/CHandy's cast in ^Cadd2bronze Cadd2add4 Bb/Eb And he's standing in a little park

with his trumpet in his hand like he's ^Gm9listening back

to the good old days, and the kick of high-heeled shoes

Furry sings ^Cadd2the blues Bb/Eb Laughing, smoking, drinking he'll play for you

It's mostly mutte^Gm9ring now, and side show spiel ^Gm9But there was one song he played I could really ^F/Cfeel ^Cadd2

Link to next verse : -------------------- Eb5 F5 Gm9 Eb5 F5 Then on to verse 2 Structure is the same all the way through. Song ends with repeated pattern of Cadd2 and Cadd2add4 Enjoy ! Howard