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 {t:Joking}
 {st:Indigo Girls}
 
 JOKING (Amy Ray)
 
 {sot}
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 {eot}
 [The net result of all the instruments is G Em7 C(9) D, which you can
 play as 320033 022033 x32033 x00232, but actually, Amy just plays
 G Em C D, or 320003 022000 x32010 x00232. In other words, Amy never
 plays the D variations; that's Emily's part, way up high on the neck.]
 
 [G][in[Em7]tro][C(9)][D][G][Em7][C(9)][Dsus-D-D(9)-D]
 
 You said the w[G]orld was magic, I was w[Em7]ide-eyed and laughing
 
 [C(9)] We were dancing u[D]p to the bright side
 
 For[G]get about your ego, for[Em7]get about your pride
 
 [C(9)] And you will never have to [D]compromise[D]
 
 And you were only j[G]oking,[Em7] you were only j[C(9)]oking, brother[Dsus-D-D(9)-D]
 
 We talked about our mothers, kissed the wounds of our fathers
 I could've been your sister, I would've been your brother
 You kissed me like I was a soldier headed for war
 I'm a dying man, but I don't know what for [stop]
 
 And you were only j[G]oking,[Em7] you were only j[C(9)]oking, brother[D]
 
 You were only j[G]oking, [Em7] you were [C(9)]only joking, brother[D]
 (Wide-eyed and laughing) (Dancing...)
 [ Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/i/indigo_girls/joking_crd_ver_3.html ]
 [G][gu[Em7]itar [C(9)]solo][D][G][Em7][C(9)][D][G][Em7][C(9)][D]
 
 Gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet
 I bruised my heels on the swollen street
 We were girls in bars, boys on the town
 Bumping like a pinball off a careless crowd
 
 You said good friends are hard to come by
 I laughed and bought you a beer, it's too corny to cry
 Well, sentiment given or sentiment lost
 You shake it off with a smirk and a toss [stop]
 
 And you were only j[G]oking,[Em7] you were only j[C(9)]oking, brother[D]
 
 You were only j[G]oking,[Em7] you were only j[C(9)]oking, brother[D]
 
 And you were only j[G]oking, [Em7] you were only j[C(9)]oking, brother[D]
 (Gravel and glass...) (I bruised my heels...)
 
 You were j[G]oking, [Em7] you were only j[C(9)]oking, brother[D]
 (You kissed me like a soldier...) (I'm a dying man...)
 
 And you were only j[G]oking, [Em7] you were only j[C(9)]oking, brother[D]
 (...dying man, but I don't know what for...)
 
 D D [stop]
 And you were only, and you were only, and you were only
 
 G Em7 C(9) Dsus-D-D(9)-D G [stop] n.C.
 Joking, brother One two three four...
 
 [G][in[Em7]strum[C(9)]ental][D][G][Em7][C(9)][D]
 
 [G]Sha-la, [Em7]sha-la, [C(9)]sha-la, [D]sha-la
 
 [G]Sha-la, [Em7]sha-la, [C(9)]sha-la, [D]sha-la
 (Wide-eyed and laughing) (Dancing up to the bright side)
 
 [repeat and fade]
 
 
 - Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com
 

    

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