Joni Mitchell – The Gallery (Guitar Tab)

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This is a beautiful song by Joni Mitchell. As always her tuning and playing are quite unique and hard to write down accurately. However, if you learn the patterns below, the whole song can be played easily because each chorus and verse is quite similar. I'd forget about the actual naming of the chords above the lyrics, please use them as cues for the patterns. first string(E): C# second string (B): A# third string (G): F# fourth string (D): C# fifth string (A): F# sixt string (E): C# [Intro]

C#|--------------------------------------0------------0-----------|
A#|-12---------10--------12----------5-----5------0h1-------0-----|
F#|-----0---------0---------0----------0-----0----0h2-----0-------|
C#|----12---------10--------12---------5----------------0---------|
F#|-12---------10--------12----------5------------0---------------|
C#|---------------------------------------------------------------|

 verse part one   
     E add9              B add9        F#  (sus4)  
C#|-------------------------0------------0----------|
A#|-10--------8---------5-----5------0h1-------0----|
F#|-----0--------0--------0-----0----0h2-----0------|
C#|----10--------10-------5----------------0--------|
F#|-10--------10--------5------------0--------------|
C#|-------------------------------------------------|

[Bridge]
    F#     F#maj7     G# (sus4)    F# maj7     F#   (sus4)
C#|--------------------------2----------0---------------0----------------|
A#|-0------0--0----2------3-------3------------0----0h1----1--0--------0-|
F#|-----0--0--0---------2-------------0-------------0h2----2--0------0---|
C#|---5----4--0-------2-------------4-------------0----------------0-----|
F#|-0--------------2------2-------4------------0--------------0----------|
C#|----------------------------------------------------------------------|

verse part two
    E 6/9              B add9        F#  (sus4)  
C#|-------------------------0------------0----------|
A#|-10--------8---------5-----5------0h1-------0----|
F#|-----0--------0--------0-----0----0h2-----0------|
C#|----10--------10-------5----------------0--------|
F#|-10--------10--------5------------0--------------|
C#|-------------------------------------------------|

[Chorus]

   F#        B6/9       F#maj7 Badd9     B6/9                    F#
C#|0----------0----------0-----0----------0-----------------------0--|
A#|0----------1----------3-----5----------3-----------------------0--|
F#|0----------0----------0-----0----------0-----------------------0--|
C#|0----------2----------4-----5----------4-----------------------0--|
F#|0----------2----------4-----5----------4-----------------------0--|
C#|0--------------------------------------------------------------0--| continue below

Lady don't Love me now I'm Dead/ I am a saint, turn down your bed

           B6/9               F#maj7 Badd9       F#maj7 B6/9           F#             F#sus4
C#|0--------0------------------0-----0-------------0----0--------------0---------------0----|
A#|0--------1------------------3-----5-------------3----1--------------0---------------0h1--|
F#|0--------0------------------0-----0-------------0----0--------------0---------------0h2--|
C#|0--------2------------------4-----5-------------4----2--------------0---------------0----|
F#|0--------2------------------4-----5-------------4----2--------------0---------------0----|
C#|0-------------------------------------------------------------------0---------------0----|

I have no heart, that's what you said / I can be cruel But let me be gentle with you" basic picking pattern: pick strings 5 (thumb) and 2 (third finger) simultanueously then 4 (thumb), then 3 (first finger). Sometimes there's an additional note on the highest string which can be played with the third finger ************************************ | h Hammer-on ************************************ Verse 1 Eadd9 When I first saw your gallery Badd9 F#(sus4) I liked the ones of ladies Eadd9 Then you began to hang up me Badd9 F# (sus4) You studied to portray me Bridge F# F#maj7 G#(sus4) In ice and greens And old blue jeans F#maj7 F#(sus4) And naked in the roses verse 1 (continued) Eadd9 Then you got into funny scenes Badd9 F#(sus4) That all your work discloses Chorus F# B6/9 F#maj7 Badd9 Lady, don't love me, now I am dead B6/9 F# I am a saint, turn down your bed B6/9 F#maj7 I have no heart, that's what you said F#maj7 B6/9 You said, I can be cruel F# F#sus4 But let me be gentle with you Verse 2 Eadd9 Somewhere in a magazine Badd9 F#(sus4) I found a page about you Eadd9 I see that now it's Josephine Badd9 F# (sus4) Who cannot be without you Bridge F# F#maj7 G#(sus4) I keep your house in fit repair F#maj7 F#(sus4) The writing looks like ladies' verse 2 (continued) Eadd9 Your mail comes here from everywhere Badd9 F#(sus4) The writing looks like ladies Chorus F# B6/9 F#maj7 Badd9 Lady, don't love me, now I am dead B6/9 F# I am a saint, turn down your bed B6/9 F#maj7 I have no heart, that's what you said F#maj7 B6/9 You said, I can be cruel F# F#sus4 But let me be gentle with you Verse 3 Eadd9 I gave you all my pretty years Badd9 F#(sus4) Then we began to weather Eadd9 And I was left to winter here Badd9 F# (sus4) While you went west for pleasure Bridge F# F#maj7 G#(sus4) And now you're flying back this way F#maj7 F#(sus4) Like some lost homing pigeon verse 3 (continued) Eadd9 They've monitored your brain, so you say Badd9 F#(sus4) And changed you with religion Chorus F# B6/9 F#maj7 Badd9 Lady, don't love me, now I am dead B6/9 F# I am a saint, turn down your bed B6/9 F#maj7 I have no heart, that's what you said F#maj7 B6/9 You said, I can be cruel F# F#sus4 But let me be gentle with you Verse 4 Eadd9 When I first saw your gallery Badd9 F#(sus4) I liked the ones of ladies Eadd9 But now their faces follow me Badd9 F# (sus4) And all their eyes look shady Chorus F# B6/9 F#maj7 Badd9 Tadada dada dada dada B6/9 F# tadadadadadideee B6/9 F#maj7