Versuri Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell - (BORN TO) TAKE THE HIGHWAY

See the stretching sun at dawning Wipe the stardust from his eyes Feel the morning breezes yawning Telling me it's time to rise Telling me it's time to rise I was born to take the highway I was born

Joni Mitchell - A BIRD THAT WHISTLES

(Arrangement of the traditional work Corrina, Corrina) Words and music by Joni Mitchell I took a house by the water Took a man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside

Joni Mitchell - A CASE OF YOU

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 carton coaster In

Joni Mitchell - A CHAIR IN THE SKY

words by Joni Mitchell music by Charles Mingus 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 Deba

Joni Mitchell - A MELODY IN YOUR NAME

Can you still remember how it all began? With clipper ships and pink electric trees, Dawnlight on a skyline bridges' span, Street light on a rooftop memory. Then it was me and spring came, Playing a s

Joni Mitchell - ALL I WANT

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 me

Joni Mitchell - COLD BLUE STEEL AND SWEET FIRE

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 Fir

Joni Mitchell - CONVERSATION

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 see

Joni Mitchell - COURT AND SPARK

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 F

Joni Mitchell - DAY AFTER DAY

Day after day Miles and miles of railroad track Night after night Hummin' of the wheels Their hummin' seems to say He'll follow you someday But someday seems a million miles away Wish I could turn a

Joni Mitchell - DOCTOR JUNK

Dr. Junk the Dentist Man Fills your teeth with what he can Airplane wings and corset stays And when he's done he'll let you pay In paper clips or inner tubes Or anything that's slightly used He's not

Joni Mitchell - GO TELL THE DRUMMER MAN

Silver drums, rhythms that he hums Waltzing dogs, that come when he calls Plans for one he keeps in a coffer What can I offer, I don't know Can I bring him love words to sing him Like some foolish mag

Joni Mitchell - IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER

The street was loud From an angry crowd and I thought of you, I thought of you Dreamer Land of the free No hungry bellies Impossible Impossible dreamer In the darkest part of the night Blue shadow

Joni Mitchell - JEREMY

Jeremy sits in the sun and he stares at the stripes On the floor from the bars on the door, Thinking of rabbits he kept as a child In a chicken wire cage; he remembers the rage Of his father the night

Joni Mitchell - JERICHO

I'll try to keep myself open up to you That's a promise that I made to love When it was new Just like Jericho I said Let these wall come tumbling down I said it like I finally found the way To keep t

Joni Mitchell - LONDON BRIDGE SONG, THE

Joni's lighthearted take on London Bridge was a crowd pleaser in her mid-sixties club show, before she signed her first recording contract. This transcription includes spoken patter that, combined with her

Joni Mitchell - MAN FROM MARS

Since I lost you I can't get through the day Without at least one big boo-hoo The pain won't go away What am I gonna do? Man from Mars This time you went too far I fall apart Everytime I think of y

Joni Mitchell - MAN TO MAN

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

Joni Mitchell - MARCIE

Marcie in a coat of flowers Steps inside a candy store Reds are sweet and greens are sour Still no letter at her door So she'll wash her flower curtains Hang them in the wind to dry Dust her tables w

Joni Mitchell - MISTER BLUE

What's the story, Mr. Blue Did she pull the rug from under you Did she chop your dreams up two by two And kick them out the door I could sympathize you, son But pity words stick to my tongue And sorr

Joni Mitchell - NIGHT IN THE CITY

Light up light up Light up your lazy blue eyes Moon's up nights up Taking the town by surprise Night time night time Day left an hour ago City light time Must you get ready so slow There are places

Joni Mitchell - REFUGE OF THE ROADS

I met a friend of spirit He drank and womanized And I sat before his sanity I was holding back from crying He saw my complications And he mirrored me back simplified And we laughed how our perfection

Joni Mitchell - SHADES OF SCARLET CONQUERING

Out of the fire like Catholic saints Comes Scarlett and her deep complaint Mimicking tenderness she sees In sentimental movies A celluloid rider comes to town Cinematic lovers sway Plantations and sw

Joni Mitchell - SHADOWS AND LIGHT

Every picture has its shadows And it has some source of light Blindness, blindness and sight The perils of benefactors The blessings of parasites Blindness, blindness and sight Threatened by all thin

Joni Mitchell - SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM

Based on a poem by W.B. Yeats Turning and turning Within the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The center cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the wor

Joni Mitchell - STRAWFLOWER ME

Look at me. Won't you tell me What you see behind the tinsel Flower lady that you made Me feel I must be. Don't you know even tinsel flowers Grow uneasy shining all the time. Sometimes they find the

Joni Mitchell - THE BOHO DANCE

Down in the cellar in the Boho zone I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well Just another hard-time band With Negro affectations I was a hopeful in rooms like this When I was working cheap

Joni Mitchell - THE FIDDLE AND THE DRUM

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

Joni Mitchell - THE LAST TIME I SAW RICHARD

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe You laugh, he said you think you're immune,

Joni Mitchell - THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT

Look out the left the captain said The lights down there, that's where we'll land I saw a falling star burn up Above the Las Vegas sands It wasn't the one that you gave to me That night down south bet

Joni Mitchell - WOODSTOCK

(Joni Mitchell) I came upon a child of God walking down the road I asked him, where are you going? And this he told me He said I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm, Just join in a rock and roll band