The Gallery by Joni Mitchell
Tabbed: August 1996
| I have no idea where I got this tuning for this song, but I tabbed it all by myself. It's not what I believe Joni did, but it's a good alterative way of playing this song. The chords are from a rare alternative tunings book I purchased many years ago, and thank goodness, they've become more abundant in recent history! |
TUNING: D A D F# A
D Capo 4th Fret
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D A D
F# A
D
D A D F# A D
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D(2) X X X 3 5
4 Dmaj7
0 4 4 3 0 0
C X X X
1 3 2
E 2 2 2
2 2 2
G 0 2 0
1 2 0
F#m 4 4 4 3 0
0
Gadd9 0 2 0 1 0
0
A7 0 0 2 1
0 2
D 0 0 0
0 0 0
Em11 2 2 2 1 0 0
Cadd9 0 3 2 1 3
0
G(2) 5 5 5 5 5 5
Dmaj7(2) 0 4 0 3 0
0 Em11(2) 0
2 2 1 0 0
Gadd9(2) 0 2 2 1 0 0
Intro: D(2) C D(2)
G-Gadd9-G D Gadd9 D
Cadd9
Gadd9
D Gadd9 D
When I first saw your gallery, I liked the ones of ladies
Cadd9
Gadd9
D Gadd9 D
Then you began to hang up me, you studied to portray me
Dmaj7(2)
E
Dmaj7 A7
In ice and greens and old blue jeans and naked in the roses
Cadd9
Gadd9
D Gadd9 D
Then you got into funny scenes, that all your work discloses
Em11 F#m G(2)
Chorus: Lady, don't love me now, I am dead
Dmaj7
D
I am a saint turn down
your bed
Em11
F#m G(2)
"I have no
heart," that's what you said
Dmaj7 Gadd9(2)
D Gadd9 D
You said, "I can be
cruel, but let me be gentle with you."
Somewhere in a magazine I found a page
about you
I see that now it's Josephine who cannot be without you
I keep your house in fit repair, I dust the portraits daily
Your mail comes here from everywhere, the writing looks like ladies'
Chorus
I gave you all my pretty years, then we
began to weather
And I was left to winter here, while you went west for pleasure
And now you're flying back this way, like some lost homing pigeon
They've monitored your brain, you say, and changed you with religion
Chorus: Lady, please love me now, I was
dead
I am no saint, turn down your bed
Lady, have you no heart that's what you said
Well I can be cruel, but let me be gentle with you
When I first saw your gallery, I liked
the ones of ladies
But now their faces follow me, and all their eyes look shady
D
Em11 F#m
G(2)
Dmaj7 D
La la la la la la la la
la la la la la