Edith and the kingpin — Joni Mitchell

From [email protected] Mon May 29 10:23:36 PDT 1995 Article: 17783 of rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab,rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic Path: unixg.ubc.ca!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!demon!doc.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!cf-cm!thor.cf.ac.uk!spxhaw From: [email protected] (Howard Wright (Hman)) Subject: *** TAB : Edith And The Kingpin - Joni Mitchell *** Message-ID: <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] (Howard Wright (Hman)) Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 18:07:50 +0100 X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway Lines: 104 Xref: unixg.ubc.ca alt.guitar.tab:51378 rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature:40796 rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic:17783

Edith And The Kingpin - Joni Mitchell

From the album 'Hissing of summer lawns'

Tabbed by Howard Wright [email protected]

The tuning for this is (low to high) : D A E G C E

Or in Joni notation : D 7 7 3 5 4

(See 'joni_tunings' file for more about her notation)

Chord shapes used :

DAEGCE DAEGCE DAEGCE DAEGCE DAEGCE

Dm7 Em7/A Bb6/9-5 Dm7/G Gm11

DAEGCE DAEGCE DAEGCE DAEGCE

I still havn't convinced myself 100% whether she uses the Dm7/G chord AND the Gm11 chord - they're almost identical. In fact I think she Just uses the simpler shape (i.e Dm7/G) - but if you like the variation You can use both shapes.

I'm going to be lazy again and not write out all the words (I can't remember Many of them) - but I'll write out a few phrases I can remember so you Know where the changes come.

Here are the main progressions :

Bb6/9-5 Em7/A Dadd9 Bb6/9-5 Em7/A

The outtro uses the same three chords repeating over and over.

Verse

Dm7 Em7/A Bb6/9-5 The big man arrives disco dancers greet him

Dm7/G Bb6/9-5 Plain clothes cops greet him small town big man, fresh lipstick glistening

Dm7 Em7/A Bb6/9-5 Sophomore jive beating frantic and snowblind

Romantic and snowblind he says his crime belongs

Bb6/9-5 Em7/A His eyes hold edith his left hand holds his right

Fmaj7sus2 Bb6/9-5 Em7/A A9 Em7/A A9 What does that hand desire that he grips it so tight

If I've mixed up words from several verses then forgive me ! As long as you see how the chords fit the words/tune then it Should be easy.

Enjoy !

Howard