Cover art for Intro To What’s The Story Mr. Blue (Live at The 2nd Fret, Philadelphia, PA, 11/1966) by Joni Mitchell

Intro To What’s The Story Mr. Blue (Live at The 2nd Fret, Philadelphia, PA, 11/1966)

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Intro To What’s The Story Mr. Blue (Live at The 2nd Fret, Philadelphia, PA, 11/1966) Lyrics

The other day I was reading in a magazine that, erm, Bob Dylan has written one of his songs by taking left-over lines from dozens of songs he'd never finished, and I decided "By golly, I've got about 15 unfinished songs at home, and what I'm gonna do with them, I'm gonna take the lines I like out of each one of them, an I'm gonna kind of cram them all together into a mulligan stew kind of song."

But the things was that, all of the songs were on very, very different topics, and, so, to put them into one song, I had to dеvelop them 'round a very basic plot... And a rock-and-roll bеat. It goes...

Now the plot goes like this: There was a fella named Mr. Blue, who's no relation to David Blue at all. He's Mr. Blue because he's kind of sad, and he had a girlfriend, who he treated very badly, and, so she left him, and it serves him right. That's the plot

"What's The Story Mr. Blue"

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This track is Mitchell’s introduction to her song What’s The Story Mr. Blue from the live show at The 2nd Fret, Philadelphia in November 1966.

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October 30, 2020
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