Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (Guitar Intro)

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Song: The hissing of summer lawns Artist: Joni Mitchell Composer: Joni Mitchell Album: The hissing of summer lawns Tabbed by DJ 29th Aug 2021 To hear the song, copy and paste this link: IMPORTANT NOTE: Please IGNORE ALL CHORD BOXES the website displays, they are not my personal choices. Those diagrams are generated automatically from the site's generic database and often do not show the best options for a particular chord progression. Please use the voicings suggested below in the text column numbers. Bm7 = x24232 (E6/C#) = x4xxxx Dm7 = xx0211 C/B = x20000 (EmM7/C) = x3xxxx Cm7 = x35343 Dm7/A = x00211 Gmaj7/B = x20032 Bm7b5 = x2323x D7sus2 = xx0210 Gmaj7/A = x00002 E7* = 020100 D/G = xx5775 G/D = xx0787 E7#5 = 020110 Daug/E = xx2332 F/D = xx0565 Bm/A = x04432 E7 = 022130 Bbmaj7 = x13231 Bmadd11 = x24430 Gmaj7 = 320002 Ebmaj7 = xx1333 N.C = No chords Chords in brackets are intended to played as passing bass notes only Please take a second to just scroll down to the bottom of the page and select a star rating for my tab, it would be much appreciated. ====================================================================
[Intro]
     Bm7       C/B
e |--2---------0--|---------------|
B |--3---------1--|---------------|
G |--2------------|---------------| [x4]
D |--4------4-----|---------------|
A |--2---2-----2--|-------0--2-2--|
E |---------------|----2----------|

     Bm7              Dm7/A
e |--2------------|---1-----------|
B |--3------------|---1-----------|
G |--2------------|---2-----------|
D |--4------------|---0-----------|
A |--2------------|---0-----------|
E |---------------|---------------|
[Verse 1]
   D7sus2       Bm7
He bought her a diamond for her throat,

                D/G
He put her in a ranch house on a hill,

Daug/E                                             E7
       She could see the valley barbecues from her window sill,

E7 (E6/C#) (EmM7/C) Gmaj7/B           Gmaj7/A
    See     the     blue pools in the squinting sun,

                           Bm7
Hear the hissing of summer lawns
[Verse 2]
Dm7/A     D7sus2   Bm7                  D/G
       He put up a barbed wire fence to keep out the unknown,

       Daug/E                          E7
And on every metal thorn just a little blood of his own,

E7 (E6/C#)(EmM7/C) Gmaj7/B                            Gmaj7/A
                   She patrols that fence of his to a latin drum,

                          G/D
And the hissing of summer lawns
[Bridge]
 G/D    F/D
(Dark - ness!)  Wonder makes it easy,

 G/D    F/D
(Dark - ness!)  With a joyful mask,

 G/D    F/D            D7sus2
(Dark - ness!)  Tube's gone, darkness,

Dm7       D7sus2       Dm7              D7sus2
Darkness, darkness, no colour, no con - trast
[Break]
   Bbmaj7                        Ebmaj7
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / |

   Dm7
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

Dm7  Cm7  Bm7b5               E7*  E7(#5)  E7*
Dah, dah, dawm, dwee - dawm!  Dah, dwee  - dawm!

  Bm/A                              N.C.             Bm7    Dm7/A
|  /  /  /  / | /__/  /__/  /  / |  Beh - dah - don, dwee - da!
   ^        ^   ^  ^     ^  ^
[Verse 3]
Bm7                         D/G
     Diamond dog carrying a cup and a cane,

                  Daug/E
Looking through a double glass,

           E7                  E7
Looking at too much pride, and too much shame,

          Gmaj7
There's a black fly buzzing,

                                  Gmaj7/A
There's a heatwave burning in her master's voice,

                Bm    Bmadd11   Bm
Hissing summer lawns
[Verse 4]
Dm7/A     D7sus2       Bm7
       He gave her his darkness to regret,

    D/G
And good reason to quit him,

              Daug/E                      E7
He gave her a roomful of Chippendale that nobody sits in,

E7 (E6/C#) (EmM7/C) Gmaj7/B
    Still,  she     stays with a love of some kind,

         Gmaj7/A
It's the lady's choice,

                      G/D           F/D         G/D    F/D
The hissing of summer lawns (Dark - ness!  It's dark - ness!)
[Coda]
     G/D    F/D      G/D    F/D
||: (Dark - ness!    Dark - ness!)  :|| [Repeat]
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[Coda Riff with bass fill]
                      G/D  F/D
e |---------------|---7----5-----|
B |------------- -|---8----6-----|
G |---------------|---7----5-----|
D |--------0---0--|---0----0-----|
A |--0-h3----3----|--------------|    h = Hammer-on note
E |---------------|--------------|