Joni Mitchell - Marcie guitar tab

From: Paul Fullam

Subject: CRD: "Marcie" - Joni Mitchell

I am fairly sure I've got the chord shapes right or this one.....

however, the names are a different story altogether.

.....if someone could correct the mistakes I may have made

in the names I'd appreciate it

Also, I'm leaving the right hand fingering for the player to

work out for him/herself....its fairly easy...basically arpeggio

style (with some strumming) and picked up easily by listening to the song

.....thanks to Howard Wright for the tuning

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MARCIE

by Joni Mitchell

from Song to a Seagull

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Tuning: (from low to high) D G D G B D.......open G

there are two distinct chord progressions used in this song

which I call Patterns 1 & 2.

Pattern 1:

Gm7 A7

Marcie in the quilt of flowers

C6add2 G Cadd2 G

Steps inside a candy store

Gm7 A7

Reds are sweet and greens are sour

C6add2 G Cadd2 G G Cadd2 G

Still no letter at her door

D# D

So she'll wash her flower curtains

C B

Hang them in the wind to dry

Gm7 A7

Dust her tables with his shirt and

C6add2 G Cadd2 G G Cadd2 G

wave another day goodbye

G Cadd2 G G Cadd2 G

........repeat Pattern 1 for the following :

Marcie's faucet needs a plumber

Marcie's sorrow needs a man

Red is autumn, green is summer

Greens are turning and the sand

All along the ocean beaches

stares up empty at the sky

Marcie buys a bag of peaches

stops a postman passing by

Pattern 2 :

Gmaj7 C(2)

And summer goes, falls to the sidewalk like string

and brown paper

Gmaj7

Winter blows up from the river

C(2)

There's no one to to take her......

G(2) A7 C6add2 G Cadd2 G Gm7 A7 C6add2 G Cadd2 G

to the sea

.........use Pattern 1 for the following :

Marcie dresses warm, its snowing

takes a yellow cab uptown

red is stop and green's for going

Sees a show and rides back down

Down along the Hudson River

Past the shipyards in the cold

still no letter's been delivered

still the winter's days unfold

.......and Pattern 2 for this :

Like magazines fading in dusty grey attics

and servers make a dream

Dream back to summer

and all he tells her

Wait for me

.......back to Pattern 1 for :

Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us

Where, why she moved away

Red is angry, green is jealous

that was all she had to say

Someone thought they saw her Sunday

window shopping in the rain

Some heard she bought a one-way

ticket and went west again

CHORDS :

DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD

x33030 x22022 x22010 x02010

Gm7 A7 C6/9 Cadd2

or C6add2

DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD

x8888x x77777 x55555 x44444

D# D C B

DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD

x44030 x55055 505430 000000

Gmaj7 C(2) G(2) G

NOTES :

I play the G(2) like this :

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

B---2s3--------------------

G----4---------------------

D----5---------------------

G----0---------------------

D----5---------------------

any corrections or improvements are of course welcome...

Cheers

Paul