Indigo Girls – Joking (Guitar)

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---------------- (The net result of all the instruments is G Em7 Cadd9 D, which you can play as 320033 022033 x32033 x00232, but actually, Amy just plays G Em C D, or 320003 022000 x32010 x00232. In other words, Amy never plays the D variations; that's Emily's part, way up high on the neck.) [Intro] G Em7 Cadd9 D G Em7 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D [Verse 1]
              G                      Em7
You said the world was magic, I was wide-eyed and laughing

Cadd9              D
  We were dancing up to the bright side

   G                      Em7
Forget about your ego, forget about your pride

Cadd9                        D          D
  And you will never have to compromise
[Short Chorus]
                   G     Em7              Cadd9         Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
And you were only joking,   you were only joking, brother
[Verse 2]
   G                                    Em7
We talked about our mothers, kissed the wounds of our fathers

  Cadd9                        D
I could've been your sister, I would've been your brother

              G                    Em7
You kissed me like I was a soldier headed for war

      Cadd9            D
I'm a dying man, but I don't know what for [stop]
[Chorus]
                  G        Em7                Cadd9             D
And you were only joking,       you were only joking, brother

              G            Em7                Cadd9             D
You were only joking,           you were only joking, brother
(Wide-eyed and laughing) (Dancing...) [Guitar Solo] G Em7 Cadd9 D G Em7 Cadd9 D G Em7 Cadd9 D [Verse 3]
G                       Em7
Gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet

  Cadd9                   D
I bruised my heels on the swollen street

        G              Em7
We were girls in bars, boys on the town

Cadd9                        D
Bumping like a pinball off a careless crowd
[Verse 4]
    G                        Em7
You said good friends are hard to come by

           Cadd9                         D
I laughed and bought you a beer, it's too corny to cry

      G                  Em7
Well, sentiment given or sentiment lost

Cadd9                       D
  You shake it off with a smirk and a toss [stop]
[Chorus]
                  G       Em7               Cadd9           D
And you were only joking,     you were only joking, brother

              G       Em7               Cadd9           D
You were only joking,     you were only joking, brother

                  G                 Em7               Cadd9            D
And you were only joking,               you were only joking, brother
(Gravel and glass...) (I bruised my heels...)
         G                         Em7              Cadd9            D
You were joking,                      you were only joking, brother
(You kissed me like a soldier...) (I'm a dying man...)
                   G           Em7                        Cadd9         D
And you were only joking,                  you were only joking, brother
(...dying man, but I don't know what for...)
                  D                  D [stop]
And you were only, and you were only, and you were only

 G    Em7  Cadd9     Dsus4 D Dsus2 D   G [stop]   N.C.
Joking,        brother                            One two three four...
[Instrumental] G Em7 Cadd9 D G Em7 Cadd9 D [Outro]
G       Em7     Cadd9   D
Sha-la, sha-la, sha-la, sha-la

G                   Em7          Cadd9                   D
Sha-la,             sha-la,      sha-la,                 sha-la
(Wide-eyed and laughing) (Dancing up to the bright side) {repeat and fade} - Adam Schneider, [email protected]