REQ: Bonnie Raitt - That Song About the Midway

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Jun 30, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/30/97

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I'm still hoping a Bonnie Raitt fan with better ears than me can figure
out the fingerpicking pattern, chords, etc to Bonnie's version of this
Joni Mitchell song, from Streetlights. Help!!!!!

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Susan McNamara

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Jul 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/2/97

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This is the Joni Mitchell version, but I just finished tabbing it, so
thought I would send it your way. Sorry, I don't know the Bonnie
Raitt version. Anyone interested in other Joni Mitchell tabs, visit
my website at <http://people.delphi.com/irv/guitar.htm>

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THAT SONG ABOUT THE MIDWAY
words & music by Joni Mitchell

Many thanks to Peter Mayer for the clue of the tuning and some basic
chord patterns. This song had been a mystery to me for a long time! -
Sue McNamara (se...@cornell.edu)

TUNING: D A D E A D (Capo 2)

INTRO:

|||||*4 |||||*2 ||||*|2 |||*||2 |||*||5
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||*|||2 *|*|*|5 ||||*|4 ||||||4
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I met you on a midway

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at a fair last year

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And you stood out like a ruby

||||*|2 |||*||2 ||||||2 |||*||2
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in a black man's ear

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|||**| |||*||
You were playing on the horses,

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you were playing on the guitar strings

||||*|2 ||||||2 |||*||2 ||||||2 |||*||2
|||*|| |||*|| |||||| |||*|| ||||||
You were playing like a devil wearing wings,

|||||*2
|||**|
wearing wings, you looked so grand

******5 |||*||2 ||||||2 |||*||2
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wearing wings

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|||**| |||*||
Do you tape them to your shoulders

|||*||2 ||||||2 |||*||2
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just to sing

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|||**|
Can you fly I heard you can

******5 |||*||2 ||||||2 |||*||2
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Can you fly

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Like an eagle doin' your hunting

|||*||2 ||||||2 |||*||2 ||||||2 ||||||4
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from the sky

SAME CHORDS FOR VERSE 2 AND 3

I followed with the sideshows to another town
And I found you in a trailer on the camping grounds
You were betting on some lover, you were shaking up the dice
And I thought I saw you cheating once or twice, once or twice

I heard your bid once or twice
Were you wondering was the gamble worth the price
Pack it in
I heard you did! Pack it in
Was it hard to fold a hand you knew you could win

So lately you've been hiding - it was somewhere in the news
And I'm still at these races with my ticket stubs and my blues
And a voice calls out the numbers, and it sometimes mentions mine
And I feel like I've been working overtime, overtime

I've lost my fire overtime
Always playin' one more hand for one more dime
Slowin' down I'm gettin' tired!
Slowin' down

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|||**| |||*||
And I envy you the valley

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that you've found

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'Cause I'm midway down the midway

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Slowin' down, down, down,

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|||**|
down

REPEAT INTRO

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___________________
/___________________\
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|| Sue McNamara ||
|| se...@cornell.edu ||
||___________________||
|| O etch-a-sketch O ||
\___________________/

"It's all a dream she has awake" - Joni Mitchell

Tap Gray

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Jul 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/2/97

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Susan McNamara wrote:

> This is the Joni Mitchell version, but I just finished tabbing it, so
> thought I would send it your way. Sorry, I don't know the Bonnie
> Raitt version. Anyone interested in other Joni Mitchell tabs, visit
> my website at <http://people.delphi.com/irv/guitar.htm>
>

>Thanks for posting this version. It's different than the one I am searching for, but nice nonetheless (Joni wrote it, so it ought to be nice!).

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