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 Remember

FACE LIFT Joni Mitchell

all seem so tawdry and cheap "Oh, let's be nice, Mama, open up your gifts You know, happiness is the best facelift" I mean, after all, she introduced us Oh, but she regrets that now Shacked up

ALL I WANT Joni Mitchell

me I want to be strong I want to laugh along I want to belong to the living Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive Do you want - do you want -

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

FREE MAN IN PARIS Joni Mitchell

"The way I see it," he said "You just can't win it...

SOLID LOVE Joni Mitchell

Tested and blessed, darlin' I'm gonna give you my very best You're my hope You're my happiness You Open my heart you do You open my heart You do Yes you do We got a break Unbelievable We got

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.

RAISED ON ROBBERY Joni Mitchell

"Let me sit down You know, drinkin' alone's a shame It's a shame, it's a crying shame Look at those jokers Glued to that damn hockey game Hey honey-you've got lots of cash Bring us round a bottle

RIVER Joni Mitchell

They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays pretty green I'm going to

TAMING THE TIGER Joni Mitchell

The old man is snoring And I'm taming the tiger (You can't tame the tiger) Tiger, tiger burning bright Nice, kitty kitty Tiger, tiger burning bright Sophia says "It's hard to catch And harder

BE COOL Joni Mitchell

If there's one rule to this game Everybody's gonna name It's, be cool!

SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM Joni Mitchell

cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The center cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the world Nothing is sacred The ceremony sinks Innocence is drowned In anarchy The best

Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joni Mitchell

hear the falconer Things fall apart The center cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the world Nothing is sacred The ceremony sinks Innocence is drowned In anarchy The best

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The centre cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the world Nothing is sacred The ceremony sinks Innocence is drowned In anarchy The best

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

MY SECRET PLACE Joni Mitchell

I'm going to take you to My special place It's a place that you Like no one else I know Might appreciate I don't go there with anyone--but You're a special case For my special place For my secret

At Last Joni Mitchell

At last My love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a lovely song At last The skies above are blue My heart's wrapped up in clover Ever since the night I looked at you I

My Secret Place (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I'm going to take you to My special place It's a place that you Like no one else I know Might appreciate I don't go there with anyone but You're a special case For my special place For my secret place

You're My Thrill Joni Mitchell

You're my thrill You do something to me You send chills right through me When I look at you 'Cause you're my thrill You're my thrill How my pulse increases I just go to pieces Every time I look at you

THE FIDDLE AND THE DRUM Joni Mitchell

And so once again My dear Johnny my dear friend And so once again you are fightin' us all And when I ask you why You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall Oh, my friend How did you come To trade

The Windfall (Everything For Nothing) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

So you want me to buy you a car Why Because Elvis did Darlin' come on Because Elvis gave 'em cars You think I'm cheap And you're hard done by Look you live here like a star Rent free suite Big blue pool

THE WINDFALL (EVERYTHING FOR NOTHING) Joni Mitchell

Because Elvis gave 'em cars You think I'm cheap And you're hard done by Look-you live here like a star Rent free suite Big blue pool that you sun by Trips to tropic shores Clothes from fancy stores

A Case Of You (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

wine Oh and you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you I could drink a case of you darling And I would still be on my feet Oh Id still be on my feet Oh I am a lonely

SEE YOU SOMETIME Joni Mitchell

Where are you now Are you in some hotel room Does it have a view? Are you caught in a crowd Or holding some honey Who came on to you?

A CASE OF YOU Joni Mitchell

sweet Oh I could drink a case of you, darling And I would still be on my feet Oh I would still be on my feet Oh I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And

THE SAME SITUATION Joni Mitchell

said you loved me "Do you think this can be real?"

A Case Of You Joni Mitchell

and so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you, darling And I would still be on my feet Oh I would still be on my feet Oh I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil

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

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?

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

MAN TO MAN Joni Mitchell

Giving my sweet love-- Tasting sweet love-- Woman to man Sometimes it's easy You drift with the empty gladness Like it all belongs Sometimes it's low down sadness Like it's all gone so wrong

TWISTED Joni Mitchell

My analyst told me That I was right out of my head The way he described it He said I'd be better dead than live I didn't listen to his jive I knew all along That he was all wrong And I knew that

JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN Joni Mitchell

I'm always running behind the time Just like this train Shaking into town With the brakes complaining I used to count lovers like railroad cars I counted them on my side Lately I don't count

COTTON AVENUE Joni Mitchell

That's where I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes If you got a place like that to go You just have to go there If you got no place special Well then, you just go

Overture - Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

where I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes If you got a place like that to go You just have to go there If you got no place special Well then, you just go no place special

Overture-Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes If you got a place like that to go You just have to go there If you got no place special Well then you just go no place special I

(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care Joni Mitchell

You're so square baby You're so square Oh, you don't like greasy diners You don't like sleazy bands You just want to go To a movie show And sit there holding hands You're so square Baby I don't care You

ROSES BLUE Joni Mitchell

I think of tears, I think of rain on shingles I think of rain, I think of roses blue I think of Rose, my heart begins to tremble To see the place she's lately gotten to Gotten to, gotten to She's

LESSON IN SURVIVAL Joni Mitchell

Lesson in Survival Spinning out on turns That gets you tough Guru books-the Bible Only a reminder That you're just not good enough You need to believe in something Once I could in our love Black

Dancin' Clown Joni Mitchell

No, you couldn't call Jesse a babe in the woods He's just weak in self-defense 'Cause he's so thin skinned He can't take a joke at his expense "You're a push down window," says Rowdy Yates "I can run you

Dancin' Clown (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

No, you couldn't call Jesse a babe in the woods He's just weak in self defense 'Cause he's so thin skinned He can't take a joke at his expense You're a push button window, says Rowdy Yates I can run you

OFF NIGHT BACKSTREET Joni Mitchell

Maybe I'm just kidding myself when I say I love you I don't know-- Loving without trusting You get--frostbite and sunstroke I wish I felt nothing!

SONG TO A SEAGULL Joni Mitchell

Fly silly seabird No dreams can possess you No voices can blame you For sun on your wings My gentle relations Have names they must call me For loving the freedom Of all flying things My dreams

CALIFORNIA Joni Mitchell

met a redneck on a Grecian isle Who did the goat dance very well He gave me back my smile But he kept my camera to sell Oh the rogue, the red red rogue He cooked good omelettes and stews And I might

TWO GREY ROOMS Joni Mitchell

Tomorrow is Sunday Now there's only one day left to go Till you walk by Below my window The weekends drive me mad Holidays are oh too sad 'Cause you don't go Below my window No one knows I'm

Two Grey Rooms (Demo) Joni Mitchell

Tomorrow is Sunday Now there's only one day left to go Till you walk by Below my window The weekends drive me mad Holidays are oh too sad 'Cause you don't go Below my window No one knows I'm here One day

Two Grey Rooms (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Tomorrow is Sunday Now there's only one day left to go Till you walk by Below my window The weekends drive me mad Holidays are oh too sad 'Cause you don't go Below my window No one knows I'm here One day

THAT SONG ABOUT THE MIDWAY Joni Mitchell

I met you on a midway at a fair last year And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear You were playing on the horses, you were playing on the guitar strings You were playing like a devil wearing

SONG FOR SHARON Joni Mitchell

in to see her as a kind of joke And she lit a candle for my love luck And eighteen bucks went up in smoke Sharon, I left my man At a North Dakota junction And I came out to the "Big Apple" here