Furry Sings The Blues

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author’s own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study scholarship or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: (Howard Wright)                     Furry Sings The Blues  -  Joni Mitchell                 ----------------------------------------------                           from the album ’Hejira’                           tabbed by Howard Wright                            You only need to know about 7 or 8 shapes to play this so I’ll start of by giving the shapes then I’ll write the chord names above the words so you know where the changes come. Tuning (low to high) :   (For the shapes below I’ll write ’B’ for Bb for obvious reasons...)  CGDFBD    CGDFBD     CGDFBD     CGDFBD     CGDFBD  33xxxx    55xxxx     777000     0x7777     002220                           /        Cadd2  CGDFBD    CGDFBD  002020    333000 Cadd2add4   Bb/Eb Intro : --------          / Cadd2  Cadd2add4  Cadd2  Cadd2add4 Verse : -------- F/C                 Cadd2      Cadd2add4 Old Beale street is coming down Sweetie’s snack bar  boarded up know And there goes the tailor and the shine boy’s gone Faded out with rag time blues F/C             Cadd2 Handy’s cast in bronze         Cadd2add4             Bb/Eb And he’s standing in a little park with his trumpet in his hand like he’s listening back to the good old days and the kick of high-heeled shoes             Cadd2 Furry sings the blues Laughing smoking drinking he’ll play for you It’s mostly muttering now and side show spiel But there was one song he played I could really feel Link to next verse : --------------------         Then on to verse 2 Structure is the same all the way through. Song ends with repeated pattern of Cadd2 and Cadd2add4 Enjoy !                                 Howard