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SEX KILLS - Joni Mitchell
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From the album Turbulent Indigo
tabbed by Howard Wright
H.Wright@uk.ac.cf.astro
This is quite an easy one in some senses - only a few shapes to
learn - but I find it bloody hard to play those shapes !!!
If you've got slim fingers you'll be fine, if you havn't and
you have trouble fretting the 4 middle strings on the same fret
while leaving top and bottom strings open, then you'll have to
work on it a bit.....
This is tabbed from memory - I havn't actually heard the new
album yet !!! - but Joni did two songs from it on TV a while
ago and I videoed them and this was one of them.
I'm pretty hazy on the words - if someone wants to send them
to me, I'll put together a complete TAB with all the words too.
As it is, I've put in words where I can remember them and left
gaps elsewhere.
It's a while since I played the video, so I don't think there are
any extra middle eights that I left out - but if I have missed
out a section then let me know !
The tuning for this is ( low to high ) : D A C F G C
As usual, I'll just TAB out the shapes. The strumming style for
most of it has the bass note played first, then the other
strings are strummed a bit, though certain notes are picked out
from these - especially the notes from the top two strings.
You'll have to check with the record to get it spot on, but
it might look something like this for the intro :
Intro :
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C----------------0----------------0---0------------------
G-------------9--9------------9---9---9--------------------
F-------------9--9------------9---9---9---------------------
C----------9--9--9--------9---9-------9---------------------
A-------9--9-----------9--9---9-------9---------------------
D--0----0--------------0---------------------------------
C----------------0----------------0---0------------------
G-------------7--7------------7---7---7--------------------
F-------------7--7------------7---7---7---------------------
C----------7--7--7--------7---7-------7---------------------
A-------7--7-----------7--7---7-------7---------------------
D--0----0--------------0---------------------------------
For the Intro these two shapes are repeated a couple of times
From now on I'll just give the shapes ....
Verse :
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/mitchell_joni/sex_kills_tab.html ]
C------0-----------------------------------------------
G------12-----------------------------------------------
F------12-----------------------------------------------
C------12-----------------------------------------------
A------12-----------------------------------------------
D------0-----------------------------------------------
..............................................
C----0-------------------------------------------------
G----7-------------------------------------------------
F----7-------------------------------------------------
C----7-------------------------------------------------
A----7-------------------------------------------------
D----0-------------------------------------------------
Take a look at his license plate - it said justice
C----0-------------------------------------------------
G----12-------------------------------------------------
F----12-------------------------------------------------
C----12-------------------------------------------------
A----12-------------------------------------------------
D----0-------------------------------------------------
Is justice just ice ? Driven by greed and lust ...
C----0-------------------------------------------------
G----7-------------------------------------------------
F----7-------------------------------------------------
C----7-------------------------------------------------
A----7-------------------------------------------------
D----0-------------------------------------------------
.................................................
C-----5---------------------7---------------------------
G-----5---------------------7---------------------------
F-----5---------------------7---------------------------
C-----5---------------------7---------------------------
A-----5---------------------7---------------------------
D-----5---------------------7---------------------------
...................... and the oil spills
C------5---------------7-------------0-------------------
G------5---------------7-------------9-------------------
F------5---------------7-------------9-------------------
C------5---------------7-------------9-------------------
A------5---------------7-------------9-------------------
D------5---------------7-------------0-------------------
and sex sells everything and sex kills
C----0----------0-------------0--------------------------
G----7----------9-------------7--------------------------
F----7----------9-------------7--------------------------
C----7----------9-------------7--------------------------
A----7----------9-------------7--------------------------
D----0----------0-------------0--------------------------
Then back to the start of another verse.
Howard
