Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell - Rays Dads Cadillac guitar tab

Ray's Dad's Cadillac - Joni Mitchell

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From the album Night Ride Home

Transcribed by Howard Wright

Howard@jmdl.com

Tuning:

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low to high: DACGAD

Joni notation: D73725

The main picking pattern used here is another variation on one

of Joni's favourite feels, the triplet/shuffle feel. It should be

fairly easy to pick up if you follow the tablature while listening

to the original track.

I've indicated a few of the brief open-string strums that are used

when moving between chords as (xx0000), (xxxx00) etc.

INTRO:

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(This intro sequence is the same as the end of the

chorus sections)

D------------------------------------------------

A------------------------------------------------

G-----9--9------------------11------11-----------

C-----9--9----9---------11--11------11-----------

A-----9-----9---9-------11------11------11-------

D--0------------0----0------------------0--------

Ray's Dads Cadillac

D--------------------------0---------0---------

A--------------------------0---------0---------

G--------7----7------------9---------9---------

C-----7--7----7---------9--9------9------------

A-----7-----7---7-------------9---------9------

D--0------------0----0--------0-0--------------

(Repeat above two lines of tablature once)

D--------------------0----------------------0---

A--------------------0----------------------0---

G------9--9-------------------9--9--------------

C------9--9-------9-----------9--9-------9------

A------------9----9-----------------9----9------

D---0--------0-0-----------0--------0-0---------

D--------------------0--------

A--------------------0--------

G------9--9-------------------

C------9--9-------9-----------

A------------9----9-----------

D---0--------0-0----------0---

Use a similar feel and picking pattern for the rest of the song.

VERSE 1:

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099900 (0000xx) 333200

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

222222 7776xx

Rollin' past the rink, past the record shack

099900 (0000xx) 333200

Pink fins in the falling rain

222222 7776xx

Rollin' to the blue lights past the water mains

CHORUS:

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099900 999900

Ray's Dad's Cadillac, weekends we'd get

099900 999900

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

(x0000x) 2221xx (xxxx00)

Rock 'n roll in the dashboard

7776xx

Romance in the back of

099900 0 11 11 11 0 0 077700 099900

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

099900 0 11 11 11 0 0 077700 099900

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

VERSE 2:

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(Chords as verse 1)

Ray's Dad teaches math

Zero, I'm a dunce I'm a decimal in his class

Last night's kisses won't erase

Zero, I just can't keep the numbers in their place

CHORUS:

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Ray's Dad's Cadillac

Last night we had

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

Rock 'n roll in the dashboard

Romance in the back of

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

MIDDLE 8:

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555555

When it comes to mathematics

5554xx

I got static in the attic

099900

"No sir, nothin's clear!"

555555

I'll be blackboard blind on Monday

5554xx (xxxx00)

Dreamin' of blue runways

7776xx

On the edge of here

777777

A little atmosphere

VERSE 3:

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Blue lights out on airport road

Motown, in a field in a farmer's grove

Big planes comin' overhead

Lowdown

You can see the bolts

You can see the tire treads

CHORUS:

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Ray's Dad's Cadillac

Weekends we'd get

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

Oh, little darlin'

Rock 'n roll in the dashboard

Romance in the back of

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

OUTTRO:

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099900

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

099900

Ray's Dad's Cadillac

D----------0------------------0-----------------

A----------0--------0------------------0--------

G-------9------------------9--------------------

C-------9--------9---------9--------9-----------

A-------9-----9------------9-----9--------------

D----0--------0---------0--------0--------------

Repeat above pattern (ad lib.) to fade.

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