Joni Mitchell – Marcie (Guitar)

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: Paul Fullam <[email protected]> Subject: CRD: "Marcie" - Joni Mitchell I am fairly sure I've got the chord shapes right or this one..... however, the names are a different story altogether. .....if someone could correct the mistakes I may have made in the names I'd appreciate it Also, I'm leaving the right hand fingering for the player to work out for him/herself....its fairly easy...basically arpeggio style (with some strumming) and picked up easily by listening to the song .....thanks to Howard Wright for the tuning ----------------------------------- MARCIE by Joni Mitchell from Song to a Seagull ----------------------------------- Tuning: (from low to high) D G D G B D.......open G there are two distinct chord progressions used in this song which I call Patterns 1 & 2. Pattern 1:

Gm7            A7
Marcie in the quilt of flowers

C6add2         G Cadd2 G
Steps inside a candy store

Gm7                A7
Reds are sweet and greens are sour

C6add2          G Cadd2 G  G Cadd2 G
Still no letter at her door

D#                 D
So she'll wash her flower curtains

C                  B
Hang them in the wind to dry

Gm7             A7
Dust her tables with his shirt and

C6add2       G Cadd2 G  G Cadd2 G
wave another day goodbye

G Cadd2 G G Cadd2 G ........repeat Pattern 1 for the following : Marcie's faucet needs a plumber Marcie's sorrow needs a man Red is autumn, green is summer Greens are turning and the sand All along the ocean beaches stares up empty at the sky Marcie buys a bag of peaches stops a postman passing by Pattern 2 :

Gmaj7                                       C(2)
And summer goes, falls to the sidewalk like string

and brown paper

Gmaj7
Winter blows up from the river

        C(2)
There's no one to to take her......

G(2)     A7 C6add2 G Cadd2 G Gm7 A7 C6add2 G Cadd2 G
to the sea

.........use Pattern 1 for the following : Marcie dresses warm, its snowing takes a yellow cab uptown red is stop and green's for going Sees a show and rides back down Down along the Hudson River Past the shipyards in the cold still no letter's been delivered still the winter's days unfold .......and Pattern 2 for this : Like magazines fading in dusty grey attics and servers make a dream Dream back to summer and all he tells her Wait for me .......back to Pattern 1 for : Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us Where, why she moved away Red is angry, green is jealous that was all she had to say Someone thought they saw her Sunday window shopping in the rain Some heard she bought a one-way ticket and went west again CHORDS : DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD x33030 x22022 x22010 x02010

      Gm7                 A7               C6/9 	       Cadd2
					 or C6add2

DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD x8888x x77777 x55555 x44444 D# D C B DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD x44030 x55055 505430 000000 Gmaj7 C(2) G(2) G NOTES : I play the G(2) like this :

D--------------------------|
B---2s3--------------------|
G----4---------------------|
D----5---------------------|
G----0---------------------|
D----5---------------------|

any corrections or improvements are of course welcome... Cheers Paul