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

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

Love Joni Mitchell

I'm just sounding brass And tinkling cymbals without love- Love suffers long- Love is kind!

LOVE (CORINTHIANS II:13) Joni Mitchell

Although I speak in tongues Of men and angels I'm just sounding brass And tinkling cymbals without love-- Love suffers long-- Love is kind!

SHADES OF SCARLET CONQUERING Joni Mitchell

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

Shades Of Scarlett Conquering Joni Mitchell

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 sweeping

LEAD BALLOON Joni Mitchell

I said and I threw my drink Tequila trickling Down his business suit Must be the Irish blood Fight before you think Turn it now You can't cowtow You can't undo it It's his town And that went

MAN TO MAN Joni Mitchell

Giving my sweet love-- Tasting sweet love-- Woman to man Sometimes it's easy You drift with the empty gladness Like it all belongs Sometimes it's low down sadness Like it's all gone so wrong

IN FRANCE THEY KISS ON MAIN STREET Joni Mitchell

Downtown My darling dimestore thief In the War of Independence Rock 'n Roll rang sweet as victory Under neon signs A girl was in bloom And a woman was fading In a suburban room I said, "Take

COYOTE Joni Mitchell

and run driver, no, no Racing away You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway We saw a farmhouse burning down In the middle of nowhere In the middle of the night

LUCKY GIRL Joni Mitchell

I'm a lucky girl I found my friend I've been all around the world Mission Impossible Chasing the rainbow's end Wise guys Shy guys And sly lover boys With big bad bedroom eyes ...

Lucky Girl (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I'm a lucky girl I found my friend I've been all around the world Mission Impossible Chasing the rainbow's end Wise guys Shy guys And sly lover boys With big bad bedroom eyes I never loved a man I trusted

If I Had A Heart Joni Mitchell

Holy war Genocide Suicide Hate and cruelty... How can this be holy? If I had a heart I'd cry. These ancient tales... The good go to heaven And the wicked ones burn in hell... Ring the funeral bells!

A Case Of You (LP Version) 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, constant in the darkness Wheres that at?

LOVE PUTS ON A NEW FACE Joni Mitchell

He said "You think you're a lady But I know you're a woman We are as young as the night" I said "No telephones ringing No company coming Just the lap of the lake and the firelight" And the lonely

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

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

HEJIRA Joni Mitchell

I suppressed I see something of myself in everyone Just at this moment of the world As snow gathers like bolts of lace Waltzing on a ballroom girl You know it never has been easy Whether you do

JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN Joni Mitchell

with that teased up kind of hair Kids with the jitters in their legs And those wide, wide open stares And the kids got cokes and chocolate bars There's a thin man smoking a fat cigar Jealous lovin'lI

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,

COOL WATER Joni Mitchell

All day I face the barren waste Without a taste of water Cool water Old Dan and I Our throats slate dry Our spirits cry out for water Cool clear water Keep on movin' Dan Some devils had a plan

Cool Water (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

All day I face the barren waste Without a taste of water Cool water Old Dan and I Our throats slate dry Our spirits cry out for water Cool clear water Keep on movin' Dan Some devils had a plan Buried poison

THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT Joni Mitchell

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 this flight tonight You got the touch so gentle and

PASSION PLAY (WHEN ALL THE SLAVES ARE FREE) Joni Mitchell

(Who're you gonna get) I am up a sycamore Looking through the leaves A sinner of some position Who in the world can this heart healer be This magical physician Enter the multitudes In Exxon

Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Magdalene is trembling Like a washing on a line Trembling and gleaming Never before was a man so kind Never so redeeming Enter the multitudes In Exxon blue In radiation rose Ecstasy Now you tell me Who

MOON AT THE WINDOW Joni Mitchell

It takes cheerful resignation Heart and humility That's all it takes A cheerful person told me Nobody's harder on me than me How could they be And, nobody's harder on you than you Betsy's blue

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

SOLID LOVE Joni Mitchell

We got a break Unbelievable We got a break Right in the middle of this Hollywood heartache We got this solid love All around the town Good hearts are going under Love bandits con and plunder

TALK TO ME Joni Mitchell

There was a moon and a street lamp I didn't know I drank such a lot 'Till I pissed a tequila-anaconda The full length of the parking lot!

Strong And Wrong Joni Mitchell

Strong and wrong you win-- Only because That's the way its always been. Men love war! That's what history' s for. History... A mass--murder mystery...

YOU DREAM FLAT TIRES Joni Mitchell

It came to pass Like lightening striking from above Electric flash Just like lightening striking from above Struck by precious love Precious, precious love So hopeless and so inspired Why do you

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

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Joni Mitchell

I come from open prairie Given some wisdom and a lot of jive!

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...

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

TIN ANGEL Joni Mitchell

Varnished weeds in window jars Tarnished beads on tapestries Kept in satin boxes are Reflections of love's memories Letters from across the seas Roses dipped in sealing wax Valentines and maple

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

MAN FROM MARS Joni Mitchell

Man from Mars This time you went too far I fall apart Everytime I think of you Swallowed by the dark There is no center to my life now No grace in my heart Man from Mars This time you went too

COME IN FROM THE COLD Joni Mitchell

Back in 1957 We had to dance a foot apart And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines Holding their rulers without a heart And so with just a touch of our fingers I could make our circuitry explode

THE SILKY VEILS OF ARDOR Joni Mitchell

I am a poor wayfaring stranger Traveling through all these highs and lows I heard there was no sickness And no toil or danger Just mercy and plenty Where peaceful waters flow Where peaceful waters

Don`t Interrupt The Sorrow Joni Mitchell

Don't interrupt the sorrow Darn right In flames our prophet witches Be polite A room full of glasses He says "Your notches liberation doll" And he chains me with that serpent To that Ethiopian wall

Don't Interrupt The Sorrow Joni Mitchell

Don't interrupt the sorrow Darn right In flames our prophet witches Be polite A room full of glasses He says "Your notches liberation doll" And he chains me with that serpent To that Ethiopian wall Anima

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

YVETTE IN ENGLISH Joni Mitchell

She sticks in his mind like that Saying, "Avez-vous un allumette?" With her lips wrapped around a cigarette Yvette in English saying, "Please have this Little bit of instant bliss."

BE COOL Joni Mitchell

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 Keep things light Keep your worries out of sight And play it cool Play

REFUGE OF THE ROADS Joni Mitchell

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

Why Do Fools Fall In Love Joni Mitchell

Why do birds sing so gay And lovers await the break of day Why do they fall in love Why does the rain fall from up above Why do fools fall in love Why do they fall in love?

People's Parties Joni Mitchell

All the people at this party They've got a lot of style They've got stamps of many countries They've got passport smiles Some are friendly Some are cutting Some are watching it from the wings Some are

THE DAWNTREADER Joni Mitchell

Peridots and periwinkle blue medallions Gilded galleons spilled across the ocean floor Treasure somewhere in the sea and he will find where Never mind their questions there's no answer for The roll