From: midwesternsky@yahoo.com (Tim Arnold)
Date: 22 Sep 2002 21:08:41 -0700

Like many other people have I looked all over for the chords, tabs,
etc. for the song "Court and Spark" but they remain elusive. They are
not at http://www.jmdl.com although I have contact them and they have
plans to tab it and post it.
They may be correct in that the tuning might be DADF#AD.
Although if that is the case how the heck do standard tuning guys like
me play it?

And yes this is a piano song but Duncan Sheik has did a great cover of
this tune on acoustic guitar that I caught on the acoustic rock
channel on Spinner .
Here's the chords I have came up with in a standard tuning:

JONI MITCHELL - Court and Spark

Am                                   D
Love came to my door With a sleeping roll
            D
And a madman's soul
                Em
He thought for sure I'd seen him
C                    D
Dancing up a river in the dark

Looking for a woman
    F C     A
To court and spark

Am                                      D
He was playing on the sidewalk For passing change
  D                       D
When something strange happened
         Em
Glory train passed through him
              C                                
So he buried the coins he made
           D
In People's Park

And went looking for a woman
      F C    A
To court and spark

      F                   C
It seemed like he read my mind
               G                          D
He saw me mistrusting him  And still acting kind
             F                       C          
He saw how I worried sometimes
              ?
I worry sometimes


Possible chord on last line:

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