RAISED ON ROBBERY Joni Mitchell

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 And we'll have some laughs Gin's what I'm drinking I was raised

PAPRIKA PLAINS Joni Mitchell

It fell from midnight skies It drummed on the galvanized In the washroom, women tracked the rain Up to the make-up mirror Liquid soap and grass And Jungle Gardenia crash On Pine-Sol and beer ..

MY SECRET PLACE Joni Mitchell

something Or to take up space Guess I'm only talking To be talking to Your pretty face I don't talk much to anyone--but You're a special case For my special place My secret place I was born and raised

My Secret Place (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

tell you something Or to take up space Guess I'm only talking To be talking to Your pretty face I don't talk much to anyone but You're a special case For my special place My secret place I was born and raised

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

ETHIOPIA Joni Mitchell

Hot winds and hunger cries--Ethiopia Flies in your babies' eyes--Ethiopia Walking sticks on burning plains Betrayed by politics Abandoned by the rains On and on--the human need On and on--the human

Ethiopia (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Hot winds and hunger cries Ethiopia Flies in your babies' eyes Ethiopia Walking sticks on burning plains Betrayed by politics Abandoned by the rains On and on the human need On and on the human greed profanes

THE TENTH WORLD Joni Mitchell

, all sinners shining Heed those trumpets all night long Propped up on a samba beat With dreamland coming on Dreamland, dreamland Dreamland, dreamland Tar baby and the Great White Wonder Talking

Dreamland Joni Mitchell

sinners shining Heed those trumpets all night long Propped up on a samba beat With dreamland coming on Dreamland, dreamland Dreamland, dreamland Tar baby and the Great White Wonder Talking over a glass

SWEET BIRD Joni Mitchell

Out on some borderline Some mark of inbetween I lay down golden-in time And woke up vanishing Sweet bird you are Briefer than a falling star All these vain promises on beauty jars Somewhere

UNDERNEATH THE STREETLIGHT Joni Mitchell

I swear on the stars above I do! I swear on the streetlight on the corner Shoving back the shadows!

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

SHINY TOYS Joni Mitchell

Shiny toys--right on time Shiny toys--right on time Shiny toys I'm reading people rags in the checkout lane Look, here's a hunk--here's a honey Celebrated people and their claims to fame Here's

Shiny Toys (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Shiny toys right on time Shiny toys right on time Shiny toys I'm reading people rags in the checkout lane Look, here's a hunk here's a honey Celebrated people and their claims to fame Here's a boy and

THE ARRANGEMENT Joni Mitchell

You could have been more Than a name on the door On the thirty-third floor in the air More than a credit card Swimming pool in the backyard While you still have the time You could get away and

A CASE OF YOU Joni Mitchell

On the back of a cartoon coaster In the blue TV screen light I drew a map of Canada Oh Canada With your face sketched on it twice Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so

OTIS AND MARLENA Joni Mitchell

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 driver's seat Watches the street lights fade away On

A Case Of You Joni Mitchell

" On the back of a cartoon coaster In the blue TV screen light I drew a map of Canada Oh Canada With your face sketched on it twice Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter

A Case Of You (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

If you want me Ill be in the bar On the back of a cartoon coaster In the blue tv screen light I drew a map of canada Oh canada And your face sketched on it twice Oh you are in my blood like holy

THE REOCCURING DREAM Joni Mitchell

Dreamer Soft sexy hair Dream on He's going to love me in this ruby, ruby lipstick Others will notice!--Sexy!--Who cares! Recognize this?

The Reoccurring Dream (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

movie stars Movie stars, movie stars, movie stars Order your youth secrets of the stars Call now just $999 Our discontent is their delight They offer relief for the purchase price Love in a bottle Love on

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

The Reoccurring Dream Joni Mitchell

movie stars Movie stars, movie stars, movie stars Order your youth secrets of the stars Call now--just $9.99 Our discontent is their delight They offer relief for the purchase price Love in a bottle Love on

The Reocurring Dream Joni Mitchell

movie stars Movie stars, movie stars, movie stars Order your youth secrets of the stars Call now--just $9.99 Our discontent is their delight They offer relief for the purchase price Love in a bottle Love on

THE JUNGLE LINE Joni Mitchell

Rousseau walks on trumpet paths Safaris to the heart of all that jazz Through I bars and girders-through wires and pipes The mathematic circuits of the modern nights Through huts, through Harlem,

THE ONLY JOY IN TOWN Joni Mitchell

I want to paint a picture Botticelli style Instead of Venus on a clam I'd paint this flower child "You are the air my flowers breathe" He calls, and the ladies turn around On the first day of Spring

The Only Joy In Town (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I want to paint a picture Botticelli style Instead of Venus on a clam I'd paint this flower child You are the air my flowers breathe He calls, and the ladies turn around On the first day of Spring I'm

CAR ON A HILL Joni Mitchell

I've been sitting up waiting for my sugar to show I've been listening to the sirens and the radio He said he'd be over three hours ago I've been waiting for his car on the hill He makes friends easy

MICHAEL FROM MOUNTAINS Joni Mitchell

Michael wakes you up with sweets He takes you up streets and the rain comes down Sidewalk markets locked up tight And umbrellas bright on a grey background There's oil on the puddles in taffeta patterns

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

CHELSEA MORNING Joni Mitchell

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 pipes and drums Oh, won't you stay We'll put on

LOVE PUTS ON A NEW FACE Joni Mitchell

telephones ringing No company coming Just the lap of the lake and the firelight" And the lonely loon and the crescent moon What a pocket of heavenly grace But in France they say Everyday Love puts on

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

COYOTE Joni Mitchell

No regrets Coyote We just come from such different sets of circumstance I'm up all night in the studios And you're up early on your ranch You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail While the sun

THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT Joni Mitchell

That you can wish upon; Not the northern one That guides in the sailors Oh starbright, starbright You've got the lovin' that I like, all right Turn this crazy bird around I shouldn't have got on

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

THE BOHO DANCE Joni Mitchell

inspiration, oh well Just another hard-time band With Negro affectations I was a hopeful in rooms like this When I was working cheap It's an old romance-the Boho dance It hasn't gone to sleep But even on

SONG FOR SHARON Joni Mitchell

To buy myself a mandolin And I saw the long white dress of love On a storefront mannequin Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars...

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

GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT Joni Mitchell

When Charlie speaks of Lester You know someone great has gone The sweetest swinging music man Had a Porkie Pig hat on A bright star In a dark age When the bandstands had a thousand ways Of refusing

STRANGE BOY Joni Mitchell

A strange boy is weaving A course of grace and havoc On a yellow skateboard Thru midday sidewalk traffic Just when I think he's foolish and childish And I want him to be manly I catch my fool and

A Strange Boy Joni Mitchell

A strange boy is weaving A course of grace and havoc On a yellow skateboard Thru midday sidewalk traffic Just when I think he's foolish and childish And I want him to be manly I catch my fool and my child

BARANGRILL Joni Mitchell

Well some say it's in service They say "Humble Makes Pure" You're hoping it's near Folly 'Cause you're headed that way for sure And you just have to laugh 'Cause it's all so crazy Ah, her mind's on

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Joni Mitchell

I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter I came out two days on your tail Those two bald-headed days in November Before the first snowflakes sail Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery A split tongue spirit

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

Hana Joni Mitchell

Hana has a special knack For getting people back on the right track 'Cause she knows They all matter So she doesn't argue or flatter She doesn't fight the slights She takes it on the chin Like a champ

DOWN TO YOU Joni Mitchell

You go down to the pick up station Craving warmth and beauty You settle for less than fascination A few drinks later you're not so choosy When the closing lights strip off the shadows On this strange

FACE LIFT Joni Mitchell

I went so numb on Christmas day I couldn't feel my hands or feet I shouldn't have come She made me pay For gleaming with Donald down her street She put blame on him And shame on me She made it

THE BEAT OF BLACK WINGS Joni Mitchell

one for me to sing Hard as the squawk and the flap And the beat of--the beat of black wings "They gave me a gun," he said "They gave me a mission For the power and the glory-- Propaganda--piss on

The Beat Of Black Wings (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

It's a tough one for me to sing Hard as the squawk and the flap And the beat of the beat of black wings They gave me a gun, he said They gave me a mission For the power and the glory Propaganda piss on