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Joni Mitchell : Ladies Of The Canyon
1970

  1. Morning Morgantown
  2. For Free

  3. Big Yellow Taxi
  4. Woodstock
  5. The Circle Game
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Morning Morgantown

Tuning: DGDGBD (Open G)
Capo:
II
G x00000 Am7 x22010 ??? x0C0C0
C/g x02010 C(v) x55555 Csus4add9 x0A0A0
Bbm6 x33020 Eb x88888 ??? x0D0D0
Bm6 x44030 D x77777
|-9-----9-----9---|-7-----7-----7---|-10------10------10----|-9-----9-----9---|
|---8-----8-----8-|---7-----7-----7-|----10------10------10-|---8-----8-----8-|
|-----7-----7-----|-----7-----7-----|-------7-------7-------|-----7-----7-----|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|-----------------|
|-0-----0-----0---|-0-----0-----0---|-0-------0-------0-----|-0-----0-----0---|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|-----------------|
x0C0C0 Csus4add9 x0D0D0 x0C0C0
G
Bm6
Bbm6
When morning comes to Morgantown
Am7
G
C/g
G
The merchants roll their awnings down
C(v)
Bm6
The milk trucks make their morning rounds
Bm6
Am7
G
C/g
G
In morning Morgantown We'll rise up early with the sun To ride the bus while everyone is yawning And the day is young In morning Morgantown
D(vii)
C(v)
G
Morning Morgantown
x0C0C0 Csus4add9 x0D0D0 x0C0C0 G
Buy your dreams, a dollar down
Eb(viii)
C(v)
G
Morning any town you name
Bm6
Am7
G
C/g
G
Morning's just the same We'll find a table in the shade And sip our tea and lemonade And watch the morning on parade In morning Morgantown Ladies in their rainbow fashions Colored stop and go lights flashing We'll wink at total strangers passing In morning Morgantown Morning Morgantown Buy your dreams, a dollar down Morning in any town you name Morning's just the same I'd like to buy you everything A wooden bird with painted wings A window full of colored rings In morning Morgantown But the only thing I have to give To make you smile, to win you with Are all the mornings still to live In morning Morgantown Morning Morgantown Buy your dreams, a dollar down Morning any town you name Morning's just the same
G
Bm6
Bbm6
Am7
G
C/g
G
C/g
G
C/g
G
Morning's just the same
x0C0C0 Csus4add9 x0D0D0 x0C0CC

For Free

G
Fmaj7
Em
I slept last night in a good hotel
Am
C
F
C
I went shopping today for jewels
G
Fmaj7
Em
The wind rushed around in the dirty town
Am
C
F
C
And the children let out from the schools
Am
G
I was standing on a noisy corner
C
G
F
Em
D
Waiting for the walking green
G
Fmaj7
Em
Across the street he stood and he played real good
Am
C
F
C
Em
D
On his clarinet for free
G
Fmaj7
Em
Now me I play for fortune
Am
C
F
C
And those velvet curtain calls
G
Fmaj7
Em
I've got a black limousine and two gentlemen
Am
C
F
C
Escorting me to the halls
Am
G
And I'll play If you have the money
C
G
F
Em
D
Or if you're a friend to me
G
Fmaj7
Em
But the one man band by the quick lunch stand
Am
C
F
C
Em
D
He was playing real good for free
G
Fmaj7
Em
Nobody stopped to hear him
Am
C
F
C
Though he played so sweet and high
G
Fmaj7
Em
And they knew he had never been on their TV
Am
C
F
C
So they passed his music by
Am
G
I meant to go over and ask for a song
C
G
F
Em
D
Mayby put on a harmony
G
Fmaj7
Em
I heard his refrain as the signal changed
Am
C
F
C
Em
D
He was playing real good for free

Big Yellow Taxi

Tuning: DADF#AD (Open D)
Capo:
II
G 555555 Dsus4 020100
G6 575575 C6sus2/d 030100
A 777777 D(i) x5430x
A6 797797 D5/c# x4030x
D 000000 Dsus4/b x2010x
G
*: play with
G
and
G6
chords end on a
D
before the
A
chord
D
*: play with
D
,
Dsus4
,
C6sus2/d
chords
A
*: play with
A
and
A6
chords)
G
-
G6
-
G
-
G6
-
G
-
D
-
A
-
A6
-
A
-
A6
-
A
D
-
Dsus4
-
C6sus2/d
-
Dsus4
x3
D
-
Dsus4
-
C6sus2/d
-
D
G*
G*
D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
G*
A*
D*
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swingin' hot spot
D(i)
D5/c#
Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/b
D
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
G*
A*
D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot (Shoe pa pa pa pa
D*
Shoe pa pa pa pa)
G*
G*
D*
They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum
G*
A*
D*
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em
D(i)
D5/c#
Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/b
D
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
G*
A*
D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot (Shoe pa pa pa pa
D*
Shoe pa pa pa pa)
G*
G*
D*
Hey farmer farmer, put away that DDT now
G*
A*
D*
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees please
D(i)
D5/c#
Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/b
D
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
G*
A*
D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot (Shoe pa pa pa pa
D*
Shoe pa pa pa pa)
G*
G*
D*
Late last night I heard the screen door slam
G*
A*
D*
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man
D(i)
D5/c#
Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/b
D
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
G*
A*
D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot (Shoe pa pa pa pa)
D(i)
D5/c#
I said Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/b
D
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
G*
A*
D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot (Shoe pa pa pa pa)
G*
A*
D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot (Shoe pa pa pa pa)
G*
A*
D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Woodstock

Em
D
Dsus4
I came upon a child of God, he was walking along the road
D
Dsus4
Em
I asked him, where are you going? And this he told me
Em
D
Dsus4
I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm, gonna join in a rock and roll band
D
Dsus4
Em
Get camp out on the land and get my soul free
Em
Cadd9
A7sus4/e
We are stardust
G*
Cmaj7/e
We are golden
Em
Dsus4
D
Asus4/e
G
Em
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden................ So can I walk beside you? I've come here to lose the smog I feel to be a cog in something turning Maybe it's just the time of year, maybe it's the time of man I don't know who I am, but life is for learning We are stardust We are golden And we got to get ourselves back to the garden By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebration And I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky Turning into butterflies above our nation
Em
Cadd9
A7sus4/e
We are stardust
Em
Billion year old carbon
G*
Cmaj7/e
We are golden
Em
Caught in a devils' bargain
Em
Cadd9
Asus4/e
Dsus4
D
Asus4/e
G
Em
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden................

The Circle Game

Tuning: DGDGBD (Open G)
Capo:
IV
G x00000 Bm x44430
G7+ x04030 Bm6 x44030
C9 x02010 Am7 x22010
C(v) x55555 D7 020210
Bm6
Am7
Bm6
Am7
Bm6
Am7
G
C9
|-------0---------|-------0---------|-------0-----0---|-----------0-----|
|-3-------1-----0-|-3-------1-----0-|-3-------1-----1-|-0-----0h1---1---|
|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-----------|-----0-----------|
|---4-------2-----|---4-------2-----|---4-------2-----|---0-----------2-|
|-4-------2-------|-4-------2-------|-4-------2-------|-0-----0-----0---|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G
C9
G
C9
Yesterday a child came out to wonder
G
C9
D7
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
G
C9
Bm
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
C(v)
G
Bm6
Am7
C9
And tearful at the falling of a star
G
Bm6
Am7
G
And the seasons they go round and round
G
Bm6
Am7
G
And the painted ponies go up and down
C9
G
C9
We're captive on the carousel of time
G
Bm
C(v)
We can't return we can only look behind from where we came
G7+
C9
Am7
G
C9
And go round and round and round in the circle game Then the child moved ten times round the seasons Skated over ten clear frozen streams Words like when you're older must appease him And promises of someday make his dreams And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town And they tell him take your time it won't be long now Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty Before the last revolving year is through And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game