Happy Birthday 1975 Joni Mitchell

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LITTLE GREEN Joni Mitchell

little green Like the color when the spring is born There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow Just a little green Like the nights when the Northern lights perform There'll be icicles and birthday

Sometimes I'm Happy Joni Mitchell

you I never mind the rain from the skies As long as I have the sun in your eyes Sometimes I love you Sometimes I hate you When I hate you It's because I love you That's how I am So what can I do I'm happy

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

People's Parties Joni Mitchell

the wings Some are standing in the centre Giving to get something Photo Beauty gets attention Then her eye paint's running down She's got a rose in her teeth And a Iampshade crown One minute she's so happy

LOVE PUTS ON A NEW FACE Joni Mitchell

lonely loon and the 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

Bad Dreams Joni Mitchell

The cats are in the flower bed A red hawk rides the sky I guess I should be happy Just to be alive But we have poisoned everything And oblivious to it all The cell phone zombies babble Through the shopping

GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT Joni Mitchell

Tonight these crowds Are happy and loud Children are up dancing in the streets In the sticky middle of the night Summer serenade Of taxi horns and fun arcades Where right or wrong Under neon Every

THE TEA LEAF PROPHECY Joni Mitchell

This is your happy home Hiroshima cannot be pardoned! Don't have kids when you get grown. Because, this world is shattered The wise are mourning-- The fools are joking Oh--what does it matter?

The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) Joni Mitchell

This is your happy home Hiroshima cannot be pardoned! Don't have kids when you get grown. Because, this world is shattered The wise are mourning-- The fools are joking Oh--what does it matter?

The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

She plants her garden in the spring He does the winter shovelling But summer's just a sneeze In a long long bad winter cold She says I'm leavin' here but she don't go Sleep little darlin' This is your happy

Happy Birthday Rock'N'Roll Eddy Mitchell

m'avez accordn Il m'en reste encore Mon вme est soldne, ma voix est а louer Mon chbur npingln sur poster glacn J'suis ntiquetn pour supermarchn Mais j'suis pas rouln non J'suis rock'n'rolln Ah Ah Ah Happy

SNAKES AND LADDERS Joni Mitchell

slide back down Get to the bottom climb back up Set up credit for the lovely creature The lovely creature He On a corporate climb Set his sights on power for her On a silver platter He gave up happy

Snakes And Ladders (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

top and slide back down Get to the bottom climb back up Set up credit for the lovely creature The lovely creature He On a corporate climb Set his sights on power for her On a silver platter He gave up happy

CAREY Joni Mitchell

The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn't sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here Carey But it's really not my home My fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my feet And I miss...

Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at cloud that way. But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone. So man...

FREE MAN IN PARIS Joni Mitchell

"The way I see it," he said "You just can't win it... Everybody's in it for their own gain You can't please 'em all There's always somebody calling you down I do my best And I do good business The...

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 lov...

MY BEST TO YOU Joni Mitchell

So here's to you May your dreams come true May old father time Never be unkind And through the years Save your smiles and your tears They're just souvenirs They'll make music in your heart Remembe...

A CASE OF YOU Joni Mitchell

Just before our love got lost you said, "I am as constant as a northern star." And I said, "Constantly in the darkness Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar." On the back of a cartoon...

AMELIA Joni Mitchell

I was driving across the burning desert When I spotted six jet planes Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain It was the hexagram of the heavens it was the strings of my guitar Ame...

DOG EAT DOG Joni Mitchell

DOG EAT DOG It's dog eat dog--I'm just waking up The dove is in the dungeon And the white-washed hawks pedal hate and call it love Dog Eat Dog Holy hope in the hands of Snakebite evangelists and r...

EDITH AND THE KINGPIN Joni Mitchell

The big man arrives Disco dancers greet him Plainclothes cops greet him Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening Sophomore jive From victims of typewriters The band sounds like typewriters T...

NOTHING CAN BE DONE Joni Mitchell

Must I forgive you Each time And say you don't know what your're doing There are no victimless crimes I know of Out here in these graffiti ruins My love Oh I am not old I'm told But I am not youn...

ALL I WANT Joni Mitchell

I 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...

CHELSEA MORNING Joni Mitchell

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I heard Was a song outside my window, and the traffic wrote the words It came a-reeling up like Christmas bells, and rapping up like pip...

WILLY Joni Mitchell

Willy is my child, he is my father I would be his lady all my life He says he'd love to live with me But for an ancient injury That has not healed He said I feel once again Like I gave my heart to...

WOODSTOCK Joni Mitchell

I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm g...

CHEROKEE LOUISE Joni Mitchell

Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel In the Broadway bridge We're crawling on our knees We've got flashlights and batteries We've got cold cuts from the fridge Last year about this time We us...

THE PRIEST Joni Mitchell

The priest sat in the airport 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...

BANQUET Joni Mitchell

Come to the dinner gong The table is laden high Fat bellies and hungry little ones Tuck your napkins in And take your share Some get the gravy And some get the gristle Some get the marrow bone And...

A Case Of You Joni Mitchell

Just before our love got lost you said, "I am as constant as a northern star." And I said, "Constantly in the darkness Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar." On t...

COLD BLUE STEEL AND SWEET FIRE Joni Mitchell

Cold Blue Steel out of money One eye for the beat police Sweet Fire calling "You can't deny me Now you know what you need" Underneath the jungle gym Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief Looking for Sweet...

BE COOL Joni Mitchell

If there's one rule to this game Everybody's gonna name It's, be cool! If you're worried or uncertain If your feelings are hurtin' You're a fool if you can't keep cool Charm 'em Don't alarm 'em Ke...

FOR FREE Joni Mitchell

I slept last night in a good hotel I went shopping today for jewels The wind rushed around in the dirty town And the children let out from the schools I was standing on a noisy corner Waiting for ...

NUMBER ONE Joni Mitchell

Got to be a winner--trophy winner Get to hold your head up high up! Number one! Got to be a winner--trophy winner Get to hold your head up high up! Number one! Number one Number one Honey tell m...

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 I se...

RAINY NIGHT HOUSE Joni Mitchell

It was a rainy night We took a taxi to your mother's home She went to Florida and left you With your father's gun, alone Upon her small white bed I fell into a dream You sat up all the night and w...

BIG YELLOW TAXI Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise...

Stormy Weather Joni Mitchell

Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps rainin' all of the time Life is bare Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather Just can't get m...

CALIFORNIA Joni Mitchell

Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of lands to see But I wouldn't want to sta...

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 ...

THE PIRATE OF PENANCE Joni Mitchell

PENANCE CRANE: The pirate anchored on a Wednesday And why he came to port I wonder To see a lady so my friends say She dances for the sailors In a smoky cabaret bar underground Down in a cellar in...

OTIS AND MARLENA Joni Mitchell

Marlena under Foster Grants She's undercover from the dawns advance That girl is travel-drained And the neon mercury vapor stained Miami sky It's red as meat It's a cheap pink rose Otis in the dri...

WOMAN OF HEART AND MIND Joni Mitchell

I am a woman of heart and mind With time on her hands No child to raise You come to me like a little boy And I give you my scorn and my praise You think I'm like your mother Or another lover or yo...

NATHAN LA FRANEER Joni Mitchell

I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the plane And though we shared a common space I know I'll never meet again The driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the rear-view mirror I read his nam...

THE SAME SITUATION Joni Mitchell

Again and again 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 sa...

FICTION Joni Mitchell

I can't decide I don't know Which way to go? The options multiply The choices grow Which way to go? What should I buy? What should I be? Which way to go? (Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief) So much com...

MAN TO MAN Joni Mitchell

No demands Just pleasurable sensations Hand in hand No far reaching plans No, no-hand in hand Well I keep on trying to understand Daylight bright How come I keep moving From man to man to man? Giv...

LADIES OF THE CANYON Joni Mitchell

Trina wears her wampum beads She fills her drawing book with line Sewing lace on widows' weeds And filigree on leaf and vine Vine and leaf are filigree And her coat's a secondhand one Trimmed with...