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Harry's House / Centerpiece by Joni Mitchell


    
   Harry's House / Centerpiece



Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo

[Intro]
D C7
Ebmaj7
 
[Verse 1]
C         Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
Heatwaves on the runway
F7sus2            Ab9
As the wheels set down
             G7sus2          Ebmaj7
He takes his baggage off the carousel
                     Ebmaj13
He takes a taxi into town
 
 
[Verse 2]
C              Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
Yellow schools of taxi fishes
F7sus2             Ab9
Jonah in a ticking whale
                 G7sus2                Ebmaj7
Caught up at the lights in the fishnet windows
            Ebmaj13
Of Bloomingdale's
 
 
[Chorus 1]
               C9 Cm9 C6/9 Gm7add4 C9
Watching those high fashion girls
Ebmaj7
Skinny black models with raven curls
C9              Cm9   C6/9 Gm7add4     C9
Beauty parlor blondes with credit card eyes
Ebmaj7
Looking for the chic and the fancy to buy
 
[Verse 3]
C               Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
He opens up his suitcase
F7sus2            Ab9
In the continental suite
  G7sus2          Ebmaj7
And people thirty stories down
                                  Ebmaj9
Look like colored currents in the street
 
 
[Verse 4]
C                         Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof
F7sus2                Ab9
Like a dragonfly on a tomb
    G7sus2          Ebmaj7
And business men in button downs
                      Ebmaj13
Press into conference rooms
 
 
[Chorus 2]
               C9 Cm9 C6/9 Gm7add4 C9
Battalions of paper-minded males
Ebmaj7
Talking commodities and sales
               C9   Cm9     C6/9    Gm7add4 C9
While at home their paper wives and paper kids
Ebmaj7
Paper the walls to keep their gut reactions hid
 
 
[Verse 5]
C                       Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
Yellow checkers for the kitchen
F7sus2               Ab9
Climbing ivy for the bath
        G7sus2            Ebmaj7
She is lost in House and Gardens
                           Ebmaj9
He's caught up in Chief of Staff
 
[Verse 6]
C                    Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
He drifts off into the memory
       F7sus2            Ab9
Of the way she looked in school
         G7sus2         Ebmaj7
With her body oiled and shining
                       Ebmaj13
At the public swimming pool
 
[Interlude]
C7add9
C Bb7 A7 Ab
 
[Bridge 1]
     G7                       C7
The more I'm with you, pretty baby
     G7              C    D7   G7
The more I feel my love increase
      C7
I'm building all my dreams around you
      G               C    D7   E7
Our happiness will never cease
        Am7                   D7
'Cause nothing's any good without you
G7   Em7       A7    D7
Baby you're my centerpiece
 
[Interlude 2]
G7 C7
G7 C7 Dm7 G7
C7 G7 E7
Am7 A7
D7 G Em7 A7 D7
 
[Bridge 2]
       Gm7                     C7
We'll find a house and garden somewhere
  Gm7            C       D   Gm7
Along a country road a piece
    C7
A little cottage on the outskirts
      Gm7             C     D7   E7
Where we can really find release
       Am7                  D7
Cause nothing's any good without you
Gm7     Em7     A7     D7
Baby you're my centerpiece
 
[Interlude 3]
Gm7
"When are you going to be home, Harry?"
 
"Get down off of there!" "I sure am sick of that sofa..."
Cm7
"When are you going to be home, Harry?"
 
"I said get down off of there!"
 
"Nothing's any good." "When are you gonna be home, Harry?"
Ebmaj7
"Nothing's any good."
 
[Outro]
C                Gm7add4 Ebmaj7
Shining hair and shining skin
F7sus2          Ab9
Shining as she reeled him in
    G7sus2           Ebmaj7
To tell him like she did today
                           Ebmaj13
Just what he could do with Harry's House
                      C7
And Harry's take home pay




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