Joni Mitchell – Electricity (Guitar)

Capo 4
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

Tabbed by Robin Young
--TUNING: GGDGBD-- (tune low E string down to G, not up.)
[Chords] G 0 0 0 0 0 x F6/G 0 0 3 2 1 0 Am7 x 2 2 0 1 x G5 0 0 5 0 3 0 G7sus4 0 0 3 0 1 0 Am11/G 0 0 0 2 1 2 Gmaj7 0 0 0 4 3 4 G7 0 0 3 0 0 0 [Verse 1]
G   F6/G     Am7          G5           G7sus4
The minus is loveless, he talks to the land

G       Am7                         G7sus4
And the leaves fall and the pond overices

    G              Am7           Am11/G     Gmaj7
She don’t know the system, plus she don’t understand

          G5            G7sus4    G   Am7
She’s got all the wrong fuses and splices

      G5        G7sus4    G  Am7
She’s not gonna fix it up,   too easy
[Verse 2]
G   F6/G         Am7     G5                G7sus4
The masking tape tangles,  it’s sticky and black

G       Am7          G7sus4
And the copper proud headed Queen Lizzie

G               Am7          Am11/G    Gmaj7
Conducts little charges that don’t get charged back

          G5        G7sus4 G      Am7
Well, the technical ma-----nual’s busy

      G5        G7sus4    G Am7
She’s not gonna fix it up,  too easy
[Verse 3]
G       G5            G7sus4         G   Am7
And she holds out her flashlight and she shines it on me

G   G5          G7sus4   G        Am7
She wants me to tell her what the trouble might be

          G              Am7             Am11/G       Gmaj7
Well, I’m learning, It’s peaceful with a good dog and some trees

       G5             G7sus4 G          Am7
Out of touch with the breakdown of this century

        G5        G7sus4    G Am7
They're not gonna fix it up,  too easy
[Bridge] G G7sus4 G Am7 G G5 G F6/G G G Am7 Am11/G Gmaj7 G5 G7sus4 G Am7 [Verse 4]
G  F6/G         Am7           G5       G7sus4
We once loved together and we floodlit that time

Am7               F6/G
Input – output – electricity

G                 Am7            Am11/G         Gmaj7
But the lines overloaded and the sparks started flying

        G5          G7sus4 G     Am7
And the loose wires were lashing out at me

      G5        G7sus4    G Am7
She's not gonna fix it up,  too easy
[Verse 5]
G       G5            G7sus4     G   Am7
But she holds out her candle and she shines it in

G       G5          G7sus4   G      Am7
And she begs him to show her how to fix it again

G                      Am7         Am11/G        Gmaj7
While the song that he sang her to soothe her to sleep

     G5          G7sus4 G      Am7
Runs all through her circuits    like a heartbeat
[Outro]
      G5        G7sus4    G Am7    F6/G  G7
She's not gonna fix it up,  too eas--------y

F6/G  G7
(repeat and fade)