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                      SEX KILLS   -   Joni Mitchell
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                           From the album Turbulent Indigo
                           tabbed by Howard Wright
                           H.Wright@uk.ac.cf.astro




This is quite an easy one in some senses - only a few shapes to
learn - but I find it bloody hard to play those shapes !!!

If you've got slim fingers you'll be fine, if you havn't and
you have trouble fretting the 4 middle strings on the same fret
while leaving top and bottom strings open, then you'll have to
work on it a bit.....



This is tabbed from memory - I havn't actually heard the new
album yet !!!  - but Joni did two songs from it on TV a while
ago and I videoed them and this was one of them. 
I'm pretty hazy on the words - if someone wants to send them
to me, I'll put together a complete TAB with all the words too.

As it is, I've put in words where I can remember them and left
gaps elsewhere.


It's a while since I played the video, so I don't think there are
any extra middle eights that I left out - but if I have missed 
out a section then let me know !



The tuning for this is ( low to high ) :   D A C F G C


As usual, I'll just TAB out the shapes. The strumming style for
most of it has the bass note played first, then the other 
strings are strummed a bit, though certain notes are picked out 
from these - especially the notes from the top two strings.

You'll have to check with the record to get it spot on, but
it might look something like this for the intro :



Intro :
-------

C----------------0----------------0---0------------------
G-------------9--9------------9---9---9--------------------
F-------------9--9------------9---9---9---------------------
C----------9--9--9--------9---9-------9---------------------
A-------9--9-----------9--9---9-------9---------------------
D--0----0--------------0---------------------------------


C----------------0----------------0---0------------------
G-------------7--7------------7---7---7--------------------
F-------------7--7------------7---7---7---------------------
C----------7--7--7--------7---7-------7---------------------
A-------7--7-----------7--7---7-------7---------------------
D--0----0--------------0---------------------------------



For the Intro these two shapes are repeated a couple of times

From now on I'll just give the shapes ....



Verse :
-------

C------0-----------------------------------------------
G------12-----------------------------------------------
F------12-----------------------------------------------
C------12-----------------------------------------------
A------12-----------------------------------------------
D------0-----------------------------------------------

..............................................


C----0-------------------------------------------------
G----7-------------------------------------------------
F----7-------------------------------------------------
C----7-------------------------------------------------
A----7-------------------------------------------------
D----0-------------------------------------------------

      Take a look at his license plate - it said justice




C----0-------------------------------------------------
G----12-------------------------------------------------
F----12-------------------------------------------------
C----12-------------------------------------------------
A----12-------------------------------------------------
D----0-------------------------------------------------

      Is justice just ice ? Driven by greed and lust ...



C----0-------------------------------------------------
G----7-------------------------------------------------
F----7-------------------------------------------------
C----7-------------------------------------------------
A----7-------------------------------------------------
D----0-------------------------------------------------

.................................................



C-----5---------------------7---------------------------
G-----5---------------------7---------------------------
F-----5---------------------7---------------------------
C-----5---------------------7---------------------------
A-----5---------------------7---------------------------
D-----5---------------------7---------------------------

      ......................  and the oil spills



C------5---------------7-------------0-------------------
G------5---------------7-------------9-------------------
F------5---------------7-------------9-------------------
C------5---------------7-------------9-------------------
A------5---------------7-------------9-------------------
D------5---------------7-------------0-------------------

      and sex sells everything and      sex kills


C----0----------0-------------0--------------------------
G----7----------9-------------7--------------------------
F----7----------9-------------7--------------------------
C----7----------9-------------7--------------------------
A----7----------9-------------7--------------------------
D----0----------0-------------0--------------------------



Then back to the start of another verse.



Howard









From: Harlan L Thompson <harlant@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>

SEX KILLS- Joni Mitchell

TUNING: C G Bb Eb F Bb  or  D A C F G C  or  E B D G A D

E9  F#m7+5  E9  F#m7+5

Bm7+5                       Bm7+5
I pulled up behind a Cadillac, we were waiting for the light
F#m7+5                                 F#m7+5
And I took a look at his license plate, it said "JUST ICE"
Bm7+5               Bm7+5
Is justice just ice? Governed by greed and lust?
F#m7+5                             F#m7+5
Just the strong doing what they can and the weak suffering what they must?

CHORUS:
D11          E11            D11   E11
And the gas leaks, and the oil spills
D11             E11        E9        F#m7+5
And sex sells everything, sex kills
      E9        F#m7+5
Whoa sex kills


Doctor's pills give you brand new ills and the bills bury you like an 
avalanche
Lawyers haven't been this popular since Robespierre slaughtered half of 
France
And Indian chiefs with their old beliefs know, the balance is undone, 
crazy ions
You can feel it out in traffic, everyone hates everyone
CHORUS

All these jackoffs at the office, the rapist in the pool
Oh and the tragedies in the nurseries, little kids packin' guns to school
The ulcerated ozone, these tumors of the skin
This hostile sun beatin down on this massive mess we're in
CHORUS

Sex kills
Oh sex kills
Sex kills

CHORDS:
   E9  F#m7+5 Bm7+5  D11  E11 
D   0    0       0    5    7                 
A   9    7      12    5    7             
G   9    7      12    5    7                 
D   9    7      12    5    7                 
B   9    7      12    5    7             
E   0    0       0    5    7                  

NOTE: Before each chord (except E11 and D11) play this riff:

A --------
D --------
G --------
D --------
B -3/5----(then the chord)
E -----0--

Also, Joni plays this all the way down in C G Bb Eb G Bb, but noone's 
going to be the wiser if you play it in E B D G A D, the same tuning as 
Crosby, Stills and Nash's Guinnevere and much easier to tune to.  And 
thanks to Howard who has already posted the gist of this earlier.