HELP ME Joni Mitchell

Help me I think I'm falling In love again When I get that crazy feeling, I know I'm in trouble again I'm in trouble 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler And a sweet-taIking-ladies man And you

MOON AT THE WINDOW Joni Mitchell

It takes cheerful resignation Heart and humility That's all it takes A cheerful person told me Nobody's harder on me than me How could they be And, nobody's harder on you than you Betsy's blue

RIVER Joni Mitchell

scene I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry He tried hard to help

THE FIDDLE AND THE DRUM Joni Mitchell

my friend How did you come To trade the fiddle for the drum You say I have turned Like the enemies you've earned But I can remember All the good things you are And so I ask you please Can I help

GOD MUST BE A BOOGIE MAN Joni Mitchell

Which would it be Mingus one or two or three Which one do you think he'd want the world to see Well, world opinion's not a lot of help When a man's only trying to find out How to feel about himself

SONG FOR SHARON Joni Mitchell

like crazy Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada They can balance and they can climb Like their fathers before them They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline Shine your light on me

Night Of The Iguana Joni Mitchell

The devil's in sweet sixteen The widow's good looking but she gets mean He's burning like Augustine With no help from God at all

HARLEM IN HAVANA Joni Mitchell

At the far end of the midway by the double ferris wheel There's a band that plays so snakey You can't help how you feel Emmie Mae ran away With a man as dark as night You can see him, if you go

Answer Me, My Love Joni Mitchell

Answer me Oh my love Just what sin have I been guilty of Tell me how I came to lose your love Please answer me sweetheart You were mine yesterday I believed that love was here to stay Won't

TALK TO ME Joni Mitchell

Oh, I talk too loose Again I talk too open and free I pay a high price for my open talking Like you do for your silent mystery Come and talk to me Please talk to me Talk to me, talk to me Mr.

Lakota (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

bastard falls In the courtrooms deaf ears sixty years You think we're sleeping but Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars We have seen the trampled rainbows In the smoke of cars I am Lakota Brave Sun pity me

LET THE WIND CARRY ME Joni Mitchell

Papa's faith is people Mama she believes in cleaning Papa's faith is in people Mama she's always cleaning Papa brought home the sugar Mama taught me the deeper meaning She don't like my kick pleat

LAKOTA Joni Mitchell

In the courtrooms--deaf ears--sixty years You think we're sleeping--but Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars We have seen the trampled rainbows In the smoke of cars I am Lakota Brave Sun pity me

THE GALLERY Joni Mitchell

When I first saw your gallery I liked the ones of ladies Then you began to hang up me You studied to portray me In ice and greens And old blue jeans And naked in the roses Then you got into funny

YOU DREAM FLAT TIRES Joni Mitchell

precious When first you felt my fire Before you dreamed flat tires You dreamed flat tires You dream flat tires "Woman she bounce back easy But a man could break both his legs" Are you telling me

A BIRD THAT WHISTLES Joni Mitchell

man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside Last time I saw that man He hung down his head and cried Corrina, Corrina Do you have to go Corrina, Corrina Tell me

A Bird That Whistles (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Took a man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside Last time I saw that man He hung down his head and cried Corrina, Corrina Do you have to go Corrina, Corrina Tell me

Don't Go to Strangers Joni Mitchell

Build your dreams To the stars above But when you need someone true to love Don't go to strangers Lover come to me Play with fire Get your fingers burned But when there's no place left to turn Don't go

GOOD FRIENDS Joni Mitchell

I have to come and see you-- Maybe once or twice a year-- I think nothing would suit me better (Right now) Than some downtown atmosphere ...

Good Friends (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I have to come and see you Maybe once or twice a year I think nothing would suit me better Right now Than some downtown atmosphere In the dance halls and the galleries Or betting in the OTB Synchronized

Good Friends (Demo) Joni Mitchell

I have to come and see you Maybe once or twice a year I think nothing would suit me better Right now Than some downtown atmosphere In the dance halls and the galleries Or betting in the OTB Synchronized

BLUE MOTEL ROOM Joni Mitchell

I've got a blue motel room With a blue bedspread I've got the blues inside and outside my head Will you still love me When I call you up when I'm down Here in Savannah it's pouring rain Palm trees

The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) Joni Mitchell

Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness-- Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees? Why have you soured and curdled me?

The Sire of Sorrow Joni Mitchell

Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness-- Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees? Why have you soured and curdled me?

Don't Worry 'Bout Me Joni Mitchell

I'll get along Forget about me Just be happy my love Let's say that our little show is over And so the story ends Why not call it a day the sensible way And still be friends Look out for yourself That

A CHAIR IN THE SKY Joni Mitchell

The rain slammed hard as bars It caught me--by surprise Mutts of the planet And shook me down for alibis I'm waiting For the keeper to release me Debating this sentence Biding my time In memories

THE SAME SITUATION Joni Mitchell

the same situation For so many years Tethered to a ringing telephone In a room full ot mirrors A pretty girl in your bathroom Checking out her sex appeal I asked myself when you said you loved me

ALL I WANT Joni Mitchell

am on a lonely road and I am traveling Traveling, traveling, traveling Looking for something, what can it be Oh I hate you some, I hate you some I love you some Oh I love you when I forget about me

OFF NIGHT BACKSTREET Joni Mitchell

You pimp--laughing and strutting her to my chartered seat Your old off night back street It's been stinger to stinger, darling It's been heart to heart You still keep me from finishing Any new love

COURT AND SPARK Joni Mitchell

something strange happened Glory train passed through him So he buried the coins he made In People's Park And went looking for a woman To court and spark It seemed like he read my mind He saw me

MY OLD MAN Joni Mitchell

warmest chord I ever heard Play that warm chord, play and stay baby We don't need no piece of paper From the city hall Keeping us tied and true My old man Keeping away my blues But when he's gone Me

CONVERSATION Joni Mitchell

He comes for conversation I comfort him sometimes Comfort and consultation He knows that's what he'll find I bring him grapes and cheeses He brings me songs to play He sees me when he pleases

Stormy Weather Joni Mitchell

Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather Just can't get my poor self together I'm weary all the time All the time So weary all of the time When you went away The blues stepped up and met me

BLUE Joni Mitchell

Blue, songs are like tattoos You know I've been to sea betore Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Hey Blue, here is a song for you Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in

THE DAWNTREADER Joni Mitchell

makes The taste of the spray he takes And he learns to give He aches and he learns to live He stakes all his silver On a promise to be free Mermaids live in colonies All his seadreams come to me

LESSON IN SURVIVAL Joni Mitchell

our love Black road Double yellow line Friends and kin Campers in the kitchen That's fine sometimes But I know my needs My sweet tumbleweed I need more quiet times By a river flowing You and me

CALIFORNIA Joni Mitchell

California I'm coming home I'm going to see the folks I dig I'll even kiss a Sunset pig California I'm coming home I met a redneck on a Grecian isle Who did the goat dance very well He gave me

Why Do Fools Fall In Love Joni Mitchell

Love is a losing game Love can be a shame I know of a fool you see That fool is me Why do fools fall in love?

TAX FREE Joni Mitchell

Different hair "Sexually active" Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air Theatre of anguish Theatre of glory God's hired hands and the devil bands Oh come let us adore---ME!

Tax Free (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

clothes Pot in their pockets Different hair Sexually active Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air Theatre of anguish Theatre of glory God's hired hands and the devil bands Oh come let us adore ME

PASSION PLAY (WHEN ALL THE SLAVES ARE FREE) Joni Mitchell

Magdalene is trembling Like a washing on a line Trembling and gleaming Never before was a man so kind Never so redeeming Enter the multitudes In Exxon blue In radiation rose Ecstasy Now you tell me

Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Magdalene is trembling Like a washing on a line Trembling and gleaming Never before was a man so kind Never so redeeming Enter the multitudes In Exxon blue In radiation rose Ecstasy Now you tell me Who

You've Changed Joni Mitchell

br />You're bored with me in every way I can't understand You've changed You've forgotten the words I love you And the memories that we've shared You've ignored all the stars up above you I can't realize

MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES Joni Mitchell

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into

LOVE PUTS ON A NEW FACE Joni Mitchell

crescent moon What a pocket of heavenly grace But in France they say Everyday Love puts on a new face Love has many faces About a month or so later he said "Why can't you be happy You make me

Don`t Interrupt The Sorrow Joni Mitchell

Don't interrupt the sorrow Darn right In flames our prophet witches Be polite A room full of glasses He says "Your notches liberation doll" And he chains me with that serpent To that Ethiopian wall

Don't Interrupt The Sorrow Joni Mitchell

Don't interrupt the sorrow Darn right In flames our prophet witches Be polite A room full of glasses He says "Your notches liberation doll" And he chains me with that serpent To that Ethiopian wall Anima

The Magdalene Laundries Joni Mitchell

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into the Magdalene

I THINK I UNDERSTAND Joni Mitchell

falls upon the path, the forest falls behind Today I am not prey to dark uncertainty The shadow trembles in its wrath, I've robbed its blackness blind And tasted sunlight as my fear came clear to me

THE PRIEST Joni Mitchell

bar He was wearing his father's tie And his eyes looked into my eyes so far Whenever the words ran dry Behind the lash and the circles blue He looked as only a priest can, thru And his eyes said me