Joni Mitchell – Harrys House - Centerpiece (Guitar)

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[Intro] D C7 Ebmaj7 [Verse 1]

C         Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
Heatwaves on the runway

F7sus2            Ab9
As the wheels set down

             G7sus2          Ebmaj7
He takes his baggage off the carousel

                     Ebmaj13
He takes a taxi into town

[Verse 2]

C              Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
Yellow schools of taxi fishes

F7sus2             Ab9
Jonah in a ticking whale

                 G7sus2                Ebmaj7
Caught up at the lights in the fishnet windows

            Ebmaj13
Of Bloomingdale's

[Chorus 1]

               C9 Cm9 C6/9 Gm7add4 C9
Watching those high fashion girls

Ebmaj7
Skinny black models with raven curls

C9              Cm9   C6/9 Gm7add4     C9
Beauty parlor blondes with credit card eyes

Ebmaj7
Looking for the chic and the fancy to buy

[Verse 3]

C               Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
He opens up his suitcase

F7sus2            Ab9
In the continental suite

  G7sus2          Ebmaj7
And people thirty stories down

                                  Ebmaj9
Look like colored currents in the street

[Verse 4]

C                         Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof

F7sus2                Ab9
Like a dragonfly on a tomb

    G7sus2          Ebmaj7
And business men in button downs

                      Ebmaj13
Press into conference rooms

[Chorus 2]

               C9 Cm9 C6/9 Gm7add4 C9
Battalions of paper-minded males

Ebmaj7
Talking commodities and sales

               C9   Cm9     C6/9    Gm7add4 C9
While at home their paper wives and paper kids

Ebmaj7
Paper the walls to keep their gut reactions hid

[Verse 5]

C                       Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
Yellow checkers for the kitchen

F7sus2               Ab9
Climbing ivy for the bath

        G7sus2            Ebmaj7
She is lost in House and Gardens

                           Ebmaj9
He's caught up in Chief of Staff

[Verse 6]

C                    Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
He drifts off into the memory

       F7sus2            Ab9
Of the way she looked in school

         G7sus2         Ebmaj7
With her body oiled and shining

                       Ebmaj13
At the public swimming pool

[Interlude] C7add9 C Bb7 A7 Ab [Bridge 1]

     G7                       C7
The more I'm with you, pretty baby

     G7              C    D7   G7
The more I feel my love increase

      C7
I'm building all my dreams around you

      G               C    D7   E7
Our happiness will never cease

        Am7                   D7
'Cause nothing's any good without you

G7   Em7       A7    D7
Baby you're my centerpiece

[Interlude 2] G7 C7 G7 C7 Dm7 G7 C7 G7 E7 Am7 A7 D7 G Em7 A7 D7 [Bridge 2]

       Gm7                     C7
We'll find a house and garden somewhere

  Gm7            C       D   Gm7
Along a country road a piece

    C7
A little cottage on the outskirts

      Gm7             C     D7   E7
Where we can really find release

       Am7                  D7
Cause nothing's any good without you

Gm7     Em7     A7     D7
Baby you're my centerpiece

[Interlude 3]

Gm7
"When are you going to be home, Harry?"

"Get down off of there!" "I sure am sick of that sofa..."

Cm7
"When are you going to be home, Harry?"

"I said get down off of there!" "Nothing's any good." "When are you gonna be home, Harry?"

Ebmaj7
"Nothing's any good."

[Outro]

C                Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
Shining hair and shining skin

F7sus2          Ab9
Shining as she reeled him in

    G7sus2           Ebmaj7
To tell him like she did today

                           Ebmaj13
Just what he could do with Harry's House

                      C7
And Harry's take home pay