Artist: Joni Mitchell
Song: Little green
Artist: Joni Mitchell
Composer: Joni Mitchell
Album: Blue

OPEN TUNING:  D-G-D-G-B-D  (Open G tuning)

Top and bottom E strings tuned DOWN to D
A string tuned DOWN to G

CAPO: 4th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of B)

N.B. To play along with the original recording on the 'Blue' album
requires further tuning down of all of the strings to be
slightly flat of concert pitch. With a chromatic tuner it is,
very approximately, minus 30. 

Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
   = x04434           = x00000           = x55555
 = x44030    Gsus2/4 = x00210          = x33333
    = x22010          = x00203   /A = x20210

Hammer-on the G2sus4, and pull off back to the G

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[Intro]
         
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[Verse 1]
  
 Born---------

            
-  with the mo

              
on in cancer,
  
Choose--------

          
- her a name s

             
he will answer

      
 to,
         
Call her green

, and the wint

ers cannot fad

e her,
      
  Call her gre

en for the chi

ldren who've m

ade her,
         
Little green--

   
-------     ..

             
.be a gypsy ..

        
.dancer-------

  
-!


[Verse 2]
       
       He-----

         
------  went t

         
o Cali - forni

       
a,
   
Hear------ing 

         
that everythin

             
g's warmer the

    
re,
       
So you write h

im a letter, a

nd say, 'Her e

yes are blue',
  
  He   sends y

ou a poem, and

 she's lost to

 you,
         
      Little g

          
reen----,     

       
   he's a non 

             
- con - former

 
!


[Chorus]
              
Just a little 

  
green,
            
Like the colou

              
r when the Spr

       
ing is born---

   
-,
             
There'll be cr

    
ocuses to brin

              
g to school to

         
 - morrow-----

   
--!
              
Just a little 

 
green,
            
Like the night

              
s when the nor

             
thern lights p

       
er - form,
            
There'll be ic

        
icles, and bir


thday clothes,
       
And sometimes 

          
   ...there'll

             
 be sorrow----

    
-------!


[Verse 3]
         
       Child--

       
--------  with

         
 a child   ...

           
pretending----

  
---,
         
       Weary--

      
--------  of l

          
ies   ...you a

              
re sending hom

   
e,
       
So you sign al

l the papers i

n the family n

ame,
  
             Y

ou're sad and 

you're sorry, 

but you're not

 ashamed,
         
      Now Litt

        
le green------

         
      ...have 

             
a happy ending

  
-------!


[Chorus]
              
Just a little 

  
green,
            
Like the colou

              
r when the Spr

      
ing is born---

    
-,
             
There'll be cr

    
ocuses to brin

              
g to school to

         
 - morrow-----

   
--!
              
Just a little 

 
green,
            
Like the night

              
s when the nor

             
thern lights p

       
er - form,
            
There'll be ic

        
icles, and bir


thday clothes,
       
And sometimes 

          
    ...there'l

      
l be sor------

          
------row!


[Coda]
             
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