Tag: Joni-Mitchell
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The Silky Veils Of Ardor
The Silky Veils Of Ardorby Joni Mitchell I am a poor wayfaring strangerTraveling through all these highs and lowsI heard there was no sicknessAnd no toil or dangerJust mercy and plentyWhere peaceful waters flowWhere peaceful waters flow Come all you fair and tender school girlsBe careful now when you court young menThey are like the…
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Little Green
Little Greenby Joni Mitchell Printer-friendly version of this lyricBorn with the moon in CancerChoose her a name she will answer toCall her green and the winters cannot fade herCall her green for the children who’ve made herLittle green, be a gypsy dancer He went to CaliforniaHearing that everything’s warmer thereSo you write him a letter…
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Big Yellow Taxi
Big Yellow Taxiby Joni Mitchell So they paved paradiseAnd put up a parking lotWith a pink hotelA boutiqueAnd a swinging night spot.Don’t it always seem to goThat you don’t know what you got ’til it’s goneThey paved paradisePut up a parking lot. They took all the treesPut ’em in a tree museumAnd they charged all…
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Nathan La Franeer by Joni Mitchell
Nathan La Franeer by Joni Mitchell I hired a coach to take mefrom confusion to the planeAnd though we shared a common spaceI know I’ll never meet againThe driver with his eyebrows furrowed in the rear-view mirrorI read his name and it was plainly written Nathan La FraneerI asked him would he hurryBut we crawled…
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The Circle Game
The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell Yesterday a child came out to wonderCaught a dragonfly inside a jarFearful when the sky was full of thunderAnd tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasonsSkated over ten clear frozen streamsWords like when you’re older must appease himAnd promises of…
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The Dawntreader by Joni Mitchell
The Dawntreader by Joni Mitchell Peridots and periwinkle blue medallionsGilded galleons spilled across the ocean floorTreasure somewhere in the sea and he will find whereNever mind their questions, there’s no answer for The roll of the harbor wakeThe songs that the rigging makesThe taste of the spray he takesAnd he learns to giveHe aches, and…
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