Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell - Yvette In English guitar tab

From: skshaw@fas.harvard.edu (Sunil Shaw)

Yvette in English

by

Joni Mitchell and David Crosby,

from her album, Turbulent Indigo

First time posting, please forgive any inaccuracies.

Having forgotten what little music theory I ever knew,

I have no idea what the chords are really called, but here

are their shapes, and the tuning, as I hear it. This is the

barest skeleton of what joni plays, but by using this tuning, the

shapes and by listening to the album, you can get pretty close.

Tuning

(tune each string down,

to the nearest correct note)

E=C

A=G

D=D

G=E

B=g

e=c

(same tuning for 'God must be a boogie man',

also by joni, album=mingus)

Chord shapes

Aflat=888800

Am =999800

F =555500

G= =777700

Am(2)=022000

Dm =222100

C =000000

Criff=000777

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00012 12 12

Yvette in English

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Aflat, Am, Aflat, Am

F G Am

He met her in a french cafe

F G Am

She slipped in sideways like a cat

F G Am

Sidelong glances, what a wary little stray

F G Criff

She sticks in his mind like that

C Am(2)

Saying 'avez vous un alumette'

Dm F

With her lips wrapped around a cigarette

F G Am

Yvette in english saying 'please have this

F G Aflat

Little bit of instant bliss...'

Am, Aflat, Am, Aflat, next verse

He's fumbling with her foreign tongue

Reaching for words and drawing blanks,

A loud mouth is stricken deaf and dumb

In a bistro on the left bank

'If I was a painter,' Picasso said

'i'd paint this girl from toe to head'

Yvette in English, saying 'please have this

Little bit of instant bliss

Burgundy nocturne tips and spills

They trot along nicely in the spreading stain

new chills, new thrills

for the old uphill battle

How did he wind up here again?

Walking and talking, touched and scared

Uninsulated wires laid bare

Yvette in English, saying 'please have this

Little bit of instant bliss

What blew her like a leaf his way

up in the air and down to earth

First she flusters, then she frays

So quick to question her own worth

Her cigarette burns her finger tips

As it falls like fireworks, she curses it

Yvette in English, saying 'please have this

Little bit of instant bliss

He sees her turn and walk away

Skittering like a cat on stone

Her high heels clicking, what a wary little stray

She leaves him by the Seine,

alone.

With the black water and the amber lights

And the bony bridge between left and right

Yvette in English, saying 'please have this

Little bit of instant bliss

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