Joanne Chords

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Joanne by Michael Nesmith is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Am7, F, G7, Dm, Dm7, Fm7, Am and F7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Joanne:Michael Nesmith (Formerly of The Monkees.) 
This was a great song that made the Top 40 in 1970. 

#1.  (Original key) 
G   C        Am7        G   F            G 
Her name was Joanne and she lived in the meadow 
G7   C   Am7 F G 
by a pond. 
        C                Am7         G F 
And she touched me for a moment with a look that  
         G     G7        C    Am7 F G 
spoke to me of her sweet love. 
         Dm    Dm7      G   G7        C             Am7 
Then the woman that she was drove her on with desperation, 
    G Dm   Dm7    G     G7     C            Am7 
And I saw, as she went, a most hopeless situation, 
    G F            Fm7          G          G7 
for Joanne and the man, and the times that made  
          C 
them both run. 

#2. 
G   G7  C      Am7   F           Dm7       G 
She was only a girl..I know that well, but still 
G7          C   Am7 F G 
I could not see..... 
Am7      C             Am7     G    F         
That the hold that she had was much stronger than  
    Dm7      G        C   Am7 F G 
the love she felt for me. 
    Dm    Dm7      G7          C             Am7 
But stay..ing with her, and my little bit of wisdom, 
G     Dm   Dm7   G     G7     C               Am7 
broke down her desires like a light through a prism, 
  G  F           Fm7         G           G7 
into yellows and blues and a tune that I could 
         C 
not have sung. 

#3. 
           Am         Am7     Dm      Dm7 
Though the essence is gone, I have no tears to  
        G 
cry for her. 
F           F7                  G 
And my only thoughts of her are kind. 

REPEAT#1. 
ADD: 
    G F            Fm7         G          G7 
For Joanne and the man and the times that made  
          C 
them both run.(x2)(Fade) 


A seventies smash from Kraziekhat. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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