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

THE WINDFALL (EVERYTHING FOR NOTHING) Joni Mitchell

I'm not going to be the jackpot At the end of your perjured rainbow Not if local justice has even one good eye Oh it's not like I was blind I saw But I took no action As you began to climb Green

COOL WATER Joni Mitchell

Our 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

Cool Water (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

slate dry Our 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

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

jury cries I'm not going to be the jackpot At the end of your perjured rainbow Not if local justice has even one good eye Oh it's not like I was blind I saw But I took no action As you began to climb Green

MARCIE Joni Mitchell

she'll wash her flower curtains Hang them in the wind to dry Dust her tables with his shirt and Wave another day goodbye Marcie's faucet needs a plumber Marcie's sorrow needs a man Red is autumn green

SONG FOR SHARON Joni Mitchell

All for something lacy Some girl's going to see that dress And crave that day like crazy Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada They can balance and they can climb Like their fathers before

Shine Joni Mitchell

Oh let your little light shine Let your little light shine Shine on Wall Street and Vegas Place your bets Shine on the fishermen With nothing in their nets Shine on rising oceans and evaporating seas Shine

YVETTE IN ENGLISH Joni Mitchell

He met her in a French cafe She slipped in sideways like a cat Sidelong glances What a wary little stray! She sticks in his mind like that Saying, "Avez-vous un allumette?"

I Don't Know Where I Stand Joni Mitchell

and talking to you And feeling too foolish and strange to say the words that I had planned I guess it's too early, 'cause I don't know where I stand Crickets call, courting their ladies in star-dappled green

LET THE WIND CARRY ME Joni Mitchell

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 skirt She don't like my eyelids painted green

FOR FREE Joni Mitchell

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 the walking green

CHELSEA MORNING Joni Mitchell

put on the day And we'll wear it 'till the night comes Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I saw Was the sun through yellow curtains, and a rainbow on the wall Blue, red, green

RIVER Joni Mitchell

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 pretty green

NO APOLOGIES Joni Mitchell

The general offered No apologies He said "The soldiers erred in judgement They should have hired a hooker" No apologies to the outraged Japanese No "Sorry little girl" The pigs just took her

If I Had A Heart Joni Mitchell

There's just too many people now Too little land Much too much desire You feel so feeble now It's so out of hand Big bombs and barbed wire We've set our lovely sky Our lovely sky On fire!

OTIS AND MARLENA Joni Mitchell

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 driver's seat Watches the street lights fade away On louvered blocks in green

THE SILKY VEILS OF ARDOR Joni Mitchell

killing crime this love can be I would have locked 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

ETHIOPIA Joni Mitchell

Between the brown skies and sprinkling lawns I hear the whine of chain saws Hacking rain forests down On and on--insanities On and on--Short sighted greed abounds Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia Little

Ethiopia (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

spray Ethiopia Between the brown skies and sprinkling lawns I hear the whine of chain saws Hacking rain forests down On and on insanities On and on Short sighted greed abounds Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia Little

LESSON IN SURVIVAL Joni Mitchell

me I get so damn timid Not at all the spirit That's inside of me Oh baby I can't seem to make it With you socially There's this reef around me I'm looking way out at the ocean Love to see that green

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

Ray's Dad's Cadillac (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Romance in the back of Ray's Dad's Cadillac When it comes to mathematics I got static in the attic No sir, nothin's clear I'll be blackboard blind on Monday Dreamin' of blue runways On the edge of here A little

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

THE DRY CLEANER FROM DES MOINES Joni Mitchell

You get a little lucky and you make a little money!

RAISED ON ROBBERY Joni Mitchell

He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel He was drinking for diversion He was thinking for himself A little money riding on the Maple Leafs Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves She says...

SUNNY SUNDAY Joni Mitchell

at the streetlight While the freeway hisses Dogs bark as the gun falls to the floor The streetlight's still burning; She always misses But the day she hits That's the day she'll leave That one little

THE THREE GREAT STIMULANTS Joni Mitchell

I picked the morning paper off the floor It was full of other people's little wars Wouldn't they like their peace Don't we get bored And we call for the three great stimulants Of the exhausted ones

The Three Great Stimulants (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I picked the morning paper off the floor It was full of other people's little wars Wouldn't they like their peace Don't we get bored And we call for the three great stimulants Of the exhausted ones Artifice

Love Or Money Joni Mitchell

back that girl he had before He's got stacks and stacks of words that rhyme Describing what it is to lose He's got some just for laughs He's got some for love That mainline to his blues Some to shed a little

CACTUS TREE Joni Mitchell

There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He

TWISTED Joni Mitchell

that easily led He said I was the type That was most inclined When out of his sight To be out of my mind And he thought I was nuts No more ifs or ands or buts They say as a child I appeared a little

TURBULENT INDIGO Joni Mitchell

He'd drag them through Turbulent Indigo "I'm a burning hearth," he said "People see the smoke But no one comes to warm themselves Sloughing off a coat And all my little landscapes All my yellow

SNAKES AND LADDERS Joni Mitchell

Started seeing other faces Young-fogie-financiers Oh love is snakes and ladders Snakes and ladders See In the crimes of time How the seasons steal away How the rungs are shattered First you're green

Snakes And Ladders (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

flatter Started seeing other faces Young fogie financiers Oh love is snakes and ladders Snakes and ladders See In the crimes of time How the seasons steal away How the rungs are shattered First you're green

Comes Love Joni Mitchell

Comes a rain storm Put your rubbers on your feet Comes a snow storm You can get a little heat Comes love Nothing can be done Comes a fire Firemen come and rescue me Blow a tire You can patch

NOT TO BLAME Joni Mitchell

His mother had the frailty You despise And the looks You love to drive to suicide Not one wet eye around Her lonely little grave Said, "He was out of line girl You were not to blame."

THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS Joni Mitchell

barbecues From her window sill See the blue pools in the squinting sun Hear the hissing of summer lawns He put up a barbed wire fence To keep out the unknown And on every metal thorn Just a little

SEX KILLS Joni Mitchell

All these jackoffs at the office The rapist in the pool Oh and the tragedies in the nurseries- Little kids packin' guns to school The ulcerated ozone These tumors of the skin- This hostile sun beating

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

ELECTRICITY Joni Mitchell

don't understand She's got all the wrong fuses and splices She's not going to fix it up Too easy The masking tape tangles It's sticky and black And the copper Proud headed Queen Lizzie Conducts little

Don`t Interrupt The Sorrow Joni Mitchell

doll" And he chains me with that serpent To that Ethiopian wall Anima rising Queen of Queens Wash my guilt of Eden Wash and balance me Anima rising Uprising in me tonight She's a vengeful little

Don't Interrupt The Sorrow Joni Mitchell

liberation doll" And he chains me with that serpent To that Ethiopian wall Anima rising Queen of Queens Wash my guilt of Eden Wash and balance me Anima rising Uprising in me tonight She's a vengeful little

Bad Dreams Joni Mitchell

other No self-consciousness But now we have to grapple With our man-made world backfiring Keeping one eye on our brother's Deadly selfishness Everyone's a victim Nobody's hands are clean There's so very little

GOOD FRIENDS Joni Mitchell

In the dance halls and the galleries Or betting in the OTB Synchronized--like magic Good friends you and me The sun goes down in Jersey Rises over Little Italy-- We could talk it up 'til the block

You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio Joni Mitchell

If you're driving into town With a dark cloud above you Dial in the number Who's bound to love you Oh honey you turn me on I'm a radio I'm a country station I'm a little bit corny I'm a wildwood flower

You Turn Me On I'm A Radio Joni Mitchell

If you're driving into town With a dark cloud above you Dial in the number Who's bound to love you Oh honey you turn me on I'm a radio I'm a country station I'm a little bit corny I'm a wildwood flower

You Turn Me On I’m A Radio Joni Mitchell

If you're driving into town With a dark cloud above you Dial in the number Who's bound to love you Oh honey you turn me on I'm a radio I'm a country station I'm a little bit corny I'm a wild wood flower

Good Friends (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

suit me better Right now Than some downtown atmosphere In the dance halls and the galleries Or betting in the OTB Synchronized like magic Good friends you and me The sun goes down in Jersey Rises over Little

Good Friends (Demo) Joni Mitchell

suit me better Right now Than some downtown atmosphere In the dance halls and the galleries Or betting in the OTB Synchronized like magic Good friends you and me The sun goes down in Jersey Rises over Little