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.
