Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell - Sex Kills guitar tab

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SEX KILLS - Joni Mitchell

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From the album Turbulent Indigo

tabbed by Howard Wright

H.Wright@uk.ac.cf.astro

This is quite an easy one in some senses - only a few shapes to

learn - but I find it bloody hard to play those shapes !!!

If you've got slim fingers you'll be fine, if you havn't and

you have trouble fretting the 4 middle strings on the same fret

while leaving top and bottom strings open, then you'll have to

work on it a bit.....

This is tabbed from memory - I havn't actually heard the new

album yet !!! - but Joni did two songs from it on TV a while

ago and I videoed them and this was one of them.

I'm pretty hazy on the words - if someone wants to send them

to me, I'll put together a complete TAB with all the words too.

As it is, I've put in words where I can remember them and left

gaps elsewhere.

It's a while since I played the video, so I don't think there are

any extra middle eights that I left out - but if I have missed

out a section then let me know !

The tuning for this is ( low to high ) : D A C F G C

As usual, I'll just TAB out the shapes. The strumming style for

most of it has the bass note played first, then the other

strings are strummed a bit, though certain notes are picked out

from these - especially the notes from the top two strings.

You'll have to check with the record to get it spot on, but

it might look something like this for the intro :

Intro :

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C----------------0----------------0---0------------------

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

F-------------9--9------------9---9---9---------------------

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

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

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

C----------------0----------------0---0------------------

G-------------7--7------------7---7---7--------------------

F-------------7--7------------7---7---7---------------------

C----------7--7--7--------7---7-------7---------------------

A-------7--7-----------7--7---7-------7---------------------

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

For the Intro these two shapes are repeated a couple of times

From now on I'll just give the shapes ....

Verse :

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C------0-----------------------------------------------

G------12-----------------------------------------------

F------12-----------------------------------------------

C------12-----------------------------------------------

A------12-----------------------------------------------

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

..............................................

C----0-------------------------------------------------

G----7-------------------------------------------------

F----7-------------------------------------------------

C----7-------------------------------------------------

A----7-------------------------------------------------

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

Take a look at his license plate - it said justice

C----0-------------------------------------------------

G----12-------------------------------------------------

F----12-------------------------------------------------

C----12-------------------------------------------------

A----12-------------------------------------------------

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

Is justice just ice ? Driven by greed and lust ...

C----0-------------------------------------------------

G----7-------------------------------------------------

F----7-------------------------------------------------

C----7-------------------------------------------------

A----7-------------------------------------------------

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

.................................................

C-----5---------------------7---------------------------

G-----5---------------------7---------------------------

F-----5---------------------7---------------------------

C-----5---------------------7---------------------------

A-----5---------------------7---------------------------

D-----5---------------------7---------------------------

...................... and the oil spills

C------5---------------7-------------0-------------------

G------5---------------7-------------9-------------------

F------5---------------7-------------9-------------------

C------5---------------7-------------9-------------------

A------5---------------7-------------9-------------------

D------5---------------7-------------0-------------------

and sex sells everything and sex kills

C----0----------0-------------0--------------------------

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

F----7----------9-------------7--------------------------

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

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

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

Then back to the start of another verse.

Howard

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