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Joni Mitchell – California
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“California” jumps along in short bursts, the lyrics giving snapshots of Joni’s European itinerary. Then comes the flowing chorus with its hint of tango, its plaintive pedal steel
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Joni Mitchell – California - Blue Sessions Demo
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[Verse 1] / Sitting in a park in Paris, France / Reading the news and it's all bad / They won't give peace a chance / That was just a dream some of us had / Still a lot of lands to
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Joni Mitchell – California Samples
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See all of “California” by Joni Mitchell’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Led Zeppelin – Going to California
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A hauntingly beautiful acoustic tune released on the legendary untitled Led Zeppelin IV, the song tells the story of a man who has left his unkind woman and is off to California
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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 – If
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[Verse 1] / If you can keep your head while all about you / People are losing theirs and blaming you / If you can trust yourself when everybody doubts you / And make allowance for
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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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tobi lou – Knock Knock Samples
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See all of “Knock Knock” by tobi lou’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Joni Mitchell – Little Green (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Born with the moon in Cancer / Choose her a name she will answer to / Call her green and the winters cannot fade her / Call her green for the children who've made her
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Joni Mitchell – Trouble Child
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[Verse 1] / Up in a sterilized room / Where they let you be lazy / Knowing your attitude's all wrong / And you got to change and that's not easy / Dragon shining with all values
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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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Joni Mitchell – Cactus Tree (Live)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Joni Mitchell – This Place
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[Verse 1] / Sparkle on the ocean / Eagle at the top of a tree / Those crazy crows always making a commotion / This land is home to me / [Verse 2] / I was talking to my neighbor
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Joni Mitchell – Cactus Tree (Live) [2022 Remaster]
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Joni Mitchell – Just Like This Train
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[Verse 1] / I'm always running behind the time / Just like this train / Shaking into town with the brakes complaining / I used to count lovers like railroad cars / I counted them
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Joni Mitchell – Down to You
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[Verse 1] / Everything comes and goes / Marked by lovers and styles of clothes / Things that you held high and told yourself were true / Lost or changing as the days come down to
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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 – Cactus Tree (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Joni Mitchell – Cactus Tree
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This song concerns a woman and all of the men who have loved her. However, has she loved them?
And, perhaps more importantly, does she know how really to love?
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Joni Mitchell – I Don't Know Where I Stand (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Funny day, looking for laughter and finding it there / Sunny day, braiding wild flowers and leaves in my hair / Picked up a pencil and wrote "I love you" in my finest
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Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark
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[Verse 1] / 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
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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 – All I Want
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Lilly Wood & The Prick – Joni Mitchell
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I've got my mother trying to reach me all the time / And there's nothing I can do / I'd like to travel the world and find out truth about all kinds of things / There's not a single
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Joni Mitchell – I Don't Know Where I Stand
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[Verse 1] / Funny day, looking for laughter and finding it there / Sunny day, braiding wild flowers and leaves in my hair / Picked up a pencil and wrote "I love you" in my finest
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Joni Mitchell – Pastures of Plenty (Live at The Half Beat, Yorkville, Toronto, Canada, 10/21/1964)
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[Intro] / Well from Euan McColl we go to another favourite writer of mine. This time an American, his name: Woody Guthrie / [Verse 1] / It's a mighty hard row that my poor hands
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Jake Burns (Ft. Jake Burns, Jacob Harris, Connall Doo) – California Bound
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[Verse 1] / I wish I was California Bound / Where the sun shines and music's all around / I'd take a guitar in my left hand / A rucksack on my back / Hitchhike to Laurel Canyon
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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 – A Case Of You - Blue Sessions Demo
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[Verse 1] / Just before our ship got lost, you said / "I am as constant as a northern star" / And I said, "You're just as silly as a northern fish / And if you want me I'll be in
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Joni Mitchell – Conversation (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / He comes for conversation / I comfort him sometimes / Comfort and consultation / He knows that's what he'll find / I bring him apples and cheeses / He brings me songs
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Joni Mitchell – The Arrangement (2021 Remaster)
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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 1] / While you
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Joni Mitchell – I Don’t Know Where I Stand - (From: ”Michael’s Birthday Tape: North Carolina”, May 1967)
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Funny day, looking for laughter and finding it there / Sunny day, braiding wild flowers and leaves in my hair / Picked up a pencil and wrote "I love you" in my finest hand / Wanted
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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 – Same Situation
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[Verse 1] / Again and again the same situation / For so many years / Tethered to a ringing telephone / In a room full of mirrors / A pretty girl in your bathroom / Checking out her
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Joni Mitchell – Blue (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Blue / Songs are like tattoos / You know I've been to sea before / Crown and anchor me / Or let me sail away / [Verse 2] / Hey, blue / There is a song for you / Ink on
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Joni Mitchell – For Free (2021 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Spotify – Women of Folk
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Janis Ian - From Me to You (Remastered) / Mya Byrne - April Fool / Aldous Harding - The Barrel / Kimya Dawson - Tire Swing / Fawn Wood - Mommy's Little Guy / Joni Mitchell
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