RIVER Joni Mitchell

It's coming on Christmas 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

COOL WATER Joni Mitchell

for water Cool clear water Keep on movin' Dan Some devils had a plan Buried poison in the sand Don't drink it man It's in the water Cool clear water In my mind I see A big green tree And a river

Cool Water (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

spirits cry out for water Cool clear water Keep on movin' Dan Some devils had a plan Buried poison in the sand Don't drink it man It's in the water Cool clear water In my mind I see A big green tree And a river

FACE LIFT Joni Mitchell

God's sake, I'm middle-aged, Mama And time moves swift And you know happiness is the best facelift" Oh, love takes so much courage Love takes so much shit He said "You've seen too many movies, Joni

MARCIE Joni Mitchell

the ocean beaches Stares up empty at the sky Marcie buys a bag of peaches Stops a postman passing by And summer goes Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper Winter blows Up from the river

COURT AND SPARK Joni Mitchell

Love came to my door With a sleeping roll And a madman's soul He thought for sure I'd seen him Dancing up a river in the dark Looking for a woman To court and spark He was playing on the sidewalk

THE SILKY VEILS OF ARDOR Joni Mitchell

up my heart In a golden sheath of armor And kept its crazy beating Under strictest secrecy High security I wish I had the wings Of Noah's pretty little white dove So I could fly this raging river

SISOTOWBELL LANE Joni Mitchell

Sometimes it is not anything A poet can sing Sometimes we try Yes we always try We have a rocking chair Somedays we rock and stare At the woodlands and the grasslands and the badlands 'cross the river

LOVE PUTS ON A NEW FACE Joni Mitchell

Some bad dreams even love can't erase But in France they say Everyday Love puts on a new face Love has many faces He said "I wish you were with me here The leaves are electric They burn on the river

TROUBLE CHILD Joni Mitchell

they know you They don't know you They're friends and they're foes too Trouble child Breaking like the waves at Malibu So why does it come as such a shock To know you really have no one Only a river

LESSON IN SURVIVAL Joni Mitchell

something Once I could in 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

Judgement of the Moon and Stars Joni Mitchell

think you're too raw It's the judgement of the moon and stars Your solitary path Draw yourself a bath Think what you'd like to have For supper Or take a walk A park A bridge A tree A river

Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) Joni Mitchell

You're too raw They think you're too raw It's the judgement of the moon and stars Your solitary path Draw yourself a bath Think what you'd like to have For supper Or take a walk A park A bridge A tree A river

PAPRIKA PLAINS Joni Mitchell

braids And lost some link with nature I'm floating into dreams I'm floating off I'm floating into my dreams I dream paprika plains Vast and bleak and God forsaken Paprika plains And a turquoise river

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...

LITTLE GREEN Joni Mitchell

Born with the moon in Cancer Choose her a name she will answer to Call her green and the winters cannot fade her Call her green for the children who've made her Little green, be a gypsy dancer He...

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...

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...

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...

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...

THE TEA LEAF PROPHECY Joni Mitchell

Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread-- The able-bodied have...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...