Little Green — Joni Mitchell

Tuning D G D G B D Capo 4th fret Key idea the same tuning as "Marcie," capoed up into a different song entirely

One of Joni Mitchell's own tunings — a variant of Double Drop D with the 5th string dropped a further whole step to G. With a capo at the 4th fret, the open strings ring out a bright, close-voiced cluster that the verse's Gmaj7–Bm6–Am6 movement leans on constantly. Two of those chords (Bm6 and Am6) are real 6th chords, not the more common minor 7ths — a small, distinctive color that's easy to miss on a lead sheet but is genuinely what's ringing on the record.

Verse

Gmaj7 down through a run of 6th chords, into a plain C

Gmaj7→ Bm6→ Am6→ Gsus4→ Gsus2→ Am6→ G→ C

The real chart calls the two sus chords G2sus4 and G7sus2 — both add an extra color tone (a 2nd, then a ♭7th) on top of the plain sus shape shown here, which is as far as a six-string voicing can go without dropping something else.

The full verse cycle, voiced in D G D G B D, capo 4.

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Chorus · "Just a little green..."

C to B♭ and back, with a real major 6th on the way

C→ B♭→ G→ G6→ G

The chorus, voiced in D G D G B D, capo 4.

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Chords sourced from the JoniMitchell.com transcription archive. Every shape verified against the app's own voicing engine in the real D G D G B D tuning at capo 4 — not a standard-tuning substitute.