joni mitchell
This song is probably written "females only", for Joni's Asylum 1972 album "For the Roses", but it's so different, special and catchy that I give a damn. You'd better tune the guitar open and find your own chords, like Jony sure did. I can do nothing but scatter some basic chords to start with.
The song is depressive, desperate and carries a suicidal intention. It doesn't follow normal harmony rules, nor normal rythm patterns. You can't fingerpick here. To tab this is foolish. Watch your tongue for all the pitfalls and pull in blue notes upon the basic chordes, keeping the syncoped rythm steady slapping the guitar.
cold blue steel out of money • one eye for the beat police
sweet fire calling "you can't deny me • now you know what you need"
underneath the jungle gym • hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief
looking for sweet fire shadow of lady release
"come with me • I know the way" she says
"it's down down down the dark ladder
do you want to contact somebody first
leave someone a letter
you can come now or you can come on later"
a wristwatch...a ring...a downstairs screamer • edgy-black cracks of the sky
"pin-cushion-prick-fix this poor bad dreamer!" • "money" cold shadows reply
pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked • corridors spit on prayers and pleas
sparks fly up from sweet fire • black soot of lady release
"come with me • I know the way" she says
"it's down down down the dark ladder
do you want to contact somebody first
does it really matter
if you come now or if you come on later?"
red water in the bathroom sink • fever and the scum brown bowl
blue steel still begging but it's indistinct • someone's Hi-Fi drumming Jelly Roll
concrete concentration camp bashing in veins for peace
cold blue steel and sweet fire • fall into lady release
"come with me • I know the way" she says
"it's down down down the dark ladder
do you want to contact somebody first
I mean what does it really matter
you're going to come now or you're going to come later"
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Chords in brackets may be omitted.
A Esus4(1) A B11/E Esus4(2) cold blue steel out of money one eye for the beat police E Em7 E Em7 sweet fire calling "you can't deny me now you know what you need" A Esus4(1) A B11/E Esus4(2) underneath the jungle gym hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief E Em7 B Esus4(1) A looking for sweet fire shadow of lady release A come with me I know the way she says B B/A Esus4(1) it's down down down the dark ladder A do you want to contact somebody first B leave someone a letter Esus4(1) Em7 E5 you can come now or you can come on later"
