Marcie

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Tab

MARCIE
By Joni Mitchell
Key: G

-5-5-5 -5 5* 555.. -5-45 -5..

-5   -5 -5-5  5*  -5   6   5*
Mar-cie in a coat of flow-ers
5      5   5 -5  -4  5  -5
Steps in-side a can-dy store
-5    -5   -5   -5   5*   -5  6  5*
Reds are sweet and greens are so-ur
5     5   5   -5 -4  5   -5
Still no let-ter at her door
7     7     7   7   -6*-6*  7    -7
So she’ll wash her flow-er cur-tains
6     6    6  6   -5* 6  -6*
Hang them in the wind to dry
-5   -5  -5   -5  5*  -5    6   5*
Dust her tab-les with his shirt and
5     5  5  -5  -4   5  -5
Wave an-oth-er day good-bye

-5   -5    -5  -5   5* -5  6    5*
Mar-cie’s fau-cet needs a plum-ber
5    5     5   -5   -4  5  -5
Mar-cie’s sor-row needs a man
-5  -5 -5  -5    5*  -5  6   5*
Red is au-tumn green is sum-mer
5       5    5   -5 -4   5   -5
Greens are turn-ing and the sand
7   7   7   7 -6* -6*  7    -7
All a-long the o-cean beach-es
6       6  6  6  -5* 6  -6*
Stares up emp-ty at the sky
-5   -5  -5 -5  5* -5   6   5*
Mar-cie buys a bag of peach-es
5     5   5   -5  -4   5  -5
Stops a post-man pass-ing by
7   -6*  6   -6*
And sum-mer goes
-5     6 -6*   7   -6*
Falls to the side-walk 
-5     6    -6*  7     -9  8
like string and brown pap-er


-5   -5  -5
Win-ter blows
-4  5*  -5   6  5*
Up from the riv-er 
-5       7 -6* -5  6    6
There’s no one to take her
5*  -5  -5
To the sea

Marcie dresses warm its snowing
Takes a yellow cab uptown
Red is stop and greens for going
Sees a show and rides back down
Down along the hudson river
Past the shipyards in the cold
Still no letters been delivered
Still the winter days unfold
Like magazines
Fading in dusty grey attics and cellars
Make a dream
Dream back to summer and hear how
He tells her
Wait for me

-5  -5    -5    -5   5*  -5  6   5*
Mar-cie leaves and does-n’t tell us
5     5   5  -5    -4  5 -5
Where or why she moved a-way
-5  -5 -5  -5   5*  -5   6   5*
Red is an-gry green is jeal-ous
5     5   5  -5   -4 5   -5
That was all she had to say
7     7    7      7   -6* -68  7  -7
Some-one thought they saw her sun-day
6    6    6   6  -5*  6   -6*
Win-dow shop-ping in the rain
-5    -5   -5   -5   5*
Some-one heard she bought 
-5 6   5*   5  5 5
a one-way tick-et
-5    5   -4  5  -5
And went west a-gain

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