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Joni Mitchell – Coyote
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“Coyote” is Joni Mitchell’s introductory track from Hejira.
Mitchell wrote “Coyote” while traveling with Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975.
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Joni Mitchell – Woodstock
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Woodstock is a song about the well known 60s festival Woodstock , attended by 300.000-400.000 people, including acts like Joan Baez, Sly and the Family Stone and Jimi Hendrix.
Joni
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Joni Mitchell (Ft. Lookout Mountain United Downstairs Choir) – The Circle Game
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“The Circle Game” by Joni Mitchell appears on her 1970 album, Ladies of the Canyon.
This is a life-lesson song that focuses on our perceptions of time through life.
The song
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Joni Mitchell – A Case of You
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Mitchell’s poetic ode to an inescapable love, one she knows could be wrong for her, but is now in her soul, has become one of her most enduring classics. It has never gone out of
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Joni Mitchell – River
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“River” is a Christmas folk song by Joni Mitchell, from her 1971 album Blue. Although never released as a single, it has become one of Mitchell’s most recorded songs.
The song is
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Joni Mitchell – The Fiddle and the Drum
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“The Fiddle and the Drum” is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell; it was recorded in 1969; she recorded the song as an anti-war protest song, she got a lot of
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Joni Mitchell – Blue
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The title track on Joni Mitchell’s masterpiece 1971 album, Blue. The song touches on depression, general sadness and the ways people use to escape from them told over a beautiful
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Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
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“Big Yellow Taxi” is Joni Mitchell’s call to action to prevent the damage we are doing to the environment. It refers to lack of human awareness; only too late we recognise the
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Joni Mitchell – Blue Boy
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[Verse 1] / Lady called the blue boy love, she took him home / Made himself an idol, yes, so he turned to stone / Like a pilgrim she travelled / To place her flowers before his
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Joni Mitchell – For Free
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Joni is mesmerized about the wonderful music a street musician plays while she ponders the fame and riches she’s achieved while this man plays for free.
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Joni Mitchell – The Last Time I Saw Richard
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“The Last Time I Saw Richard” is the final song on Joni Mitchell’s seminal album, Blue. In many ways, the song functions as a microcosm of the album as a whole, illustrating the
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Joni Mitchell – Jericho
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[Verse 1] / 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 walls come tumbling down" / I
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Joni Mitchell – Little Green
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Joni Mitchell wrote “Little Green” in 1966, five years before the release of Blue. Considered one of the most personal tracks on the album, this bittersweet folk ballad was written
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Joni Mitchell – Conversation
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“Conversation” focuses on a man that Mitchell has become acquainted with and somewhat fallen for, but who is in a strained relationship that Mitchell seeks to free him from. She
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Joni Mitchell – Carey
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Carey, a calypso about dalliance on Crete, had a definite festival flavor, but with a twist at the end.
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Joni Mitchell (Ft. Chaka Khan) – Dreamland
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[Verse 1] / It's a long, long way from Canada / A long way from snow chains / Donkey vendors slicing coconut / No parkas to their name / Black babies covered in baking flour / The
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Joni Mitchell – Banquet
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“Banquet” starts the album with Joni remarking the unfair relationship between record companies and its signed artists. Moreover, the artists who made it to the top and had their
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Joni Mitchell – Love
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Enduring all things
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Joni Mitchell – My Old Man
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Joni wrote this song about a fantasy of domesticity that harkens back to her relationship with Graham Nash, which ended while Joni was on a trip to Europe after her announcement
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Joni Mitchell – Free Man in Paris
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“Free Man in Paris” is Joni Mitchell’s story of music promoter/agent David Geffen’s discontent with the music business.
Thematically the song tackles a desire for a simpler life
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Joni Mitchell – The Priest
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[Verse 1] / The priest sat in the airport bar / He was wearing his father's tie / And his eyes looked into my eyes so far / Whenever the words ran dry / [Verse 2] / Behind the lash
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Joni Mitchell – Hejira
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[Verse 1] / I'm traveling in some vehicle / I'm sitting in some café / A defector from the petty wars / That shell shock love away / [Verse 2] / There's comfort in melancholy
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Joni Mitchell – Blue Motel Room
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[Verse 1] / I've got a blue motel room with a blue bedspread / I've got the blues inside and outside my head / Will you still love me when I call you up when I'm down? / Here in
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Joni Mitchell – This Flight Tonight
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This Flight Tonight, Joni has walked out on her man, is flying West on a jet, and now regrets the decision.
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Joni Mitchell – Morning Morgantown
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Mitchell opens Ladies of the Canyon with a gentle track that pays tribute to the simple, small town life that can be found in rural America.
The lyrics highlight the beauty in the
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Joni Mitchell – For the Roses
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[Verse 1] / I heard it in the wind last night, it sounded like applause / Did you get a round resounding for you way up here? / It seems like many dim years ago since I heard that
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Joni Mitchell – Help Me
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Joni Mitchell’s biggest hit (reaching No. 7 on the U.S. charts) is the jazzy pop folk song, “Help Me”, playfully written about her ambivalance towards a blossoming love affair. It
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Joni Mitchell – You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio
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[Verse 1] / If you're driving into town with a dark cloud above you / Dial in the number who's bound to love you / [Chorus 1] / Oh honey, you turn me on, I'm a radio / I'm a
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Joni Mitchell – The Arrangement
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[Chorus] / 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 / [Verse] / While you
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Joni Mitchell – People's Parties
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[Verse 1] / 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
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