Joni Mitchell Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Urge For Going
2. Chelsea Morning
3. Big Yellow Taxi
4. Woodstock
5. The Circle Game
6. Carey
7. California
8. You Turn Me On Im A Radio
9. Raised On Robbery
10. Help Me
11. Free Man In Paris
12. River
13. Chinese Café/Unchained Melody
14. Come In From The Cold
15. Both Sides Now
Other Songs A Bird That Whistles A Case of You A Chair In The Sky A Melody In Your Name A Midsummer Night's Dream A Strange Boy All I Want Amelia Answer Me My Love Arrangement At Last Bad Dreams BALLERINA VALERIE Banquet Barangrill Be Cool Big Yellow Taxi 2007 Black Crow Blonde In The Bleachers Blue Blue Boy Blue Motel Room BLUE ON BLUE Borderline (BORN TO) TAKE THE HIGHWAY BRANDY EYES Cactus Tree Car On A Hill CARAS CASTLE CARNIVAL IN KENORA Cherokee Louise Chinese Cafe Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody Circle Game Coin In The Pocket Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire Cold Blue Steel Sweet Fire Come To The Sunshine Comes Love COMING CLEAN Conversation Cool Water Court And Spark Coyote Daisy Summer Piper Dancin Clown DAY AFTER DAY Doctor Junk Dog Eat Dog Don Juans Reckless Daughter Dont Go To Strangers Dont Interrupt The Sorrow DONT WORRY BOUT ME Down To You Dreamland EASTERN RAIN Edith And The Kingpin Electricity Ethiopia Face Lift Fiction For Free For The Roses Funeral Funeral (Rap) Furry Sings The Blues GEMINI TWIN Gift of the Magi GO TELL THE DRUMMER MAN God Must Be A Boogie Man Good Friends Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Hana Happy Birthday 1975 Harlem In Havana Harry's House HARRYS HOUSE CENTERPIECE Harry's House/Centerpiece Hejira HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW How Do You Stop? HUNTER Hunter (The Good Samaritan) I COME I Dont Know Where I Stand I Had A King I Think I Understand I Wish I Had A River I Wish I Were In Love Again I Wont Cry If If I Had A Heart Impossible Dreamer In France They Kiss On Main Street Its A Muggin It's All Over Now, Baby Blue JEREMY Jericho Judgement Of The Moon And Stars Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) Judgement of The Moon Stars Just Like Me Just Like This Train Ladies Man Ladies Of The Canyon Lakota Last Chance Lost Lead Balloon Lesson In Survival Let The Wind Carry Me LITTLE DAVID Little Green London Bridge Lonely Avenue Love LOVE IS LIKE A BIG BRASS BAND Love or Money Love Puts On A New Face Lucky Lucky Girl Magdalene Laundries Man From Mars Man To Man Marcie Melody In Your Name Michael From Mountains Midnight Cowboy MIDNIGHT COWBOY SONG THE Midsummer Morning MISTER BLUE Moon At The Window Moon In The Mirror Morning Morgantown Mr. Blue My Best To You My Old Man My Secret Place Nathan La Franeer Night In The City Night Of The Iguana Night Ride Home No Apologies Not To Blame Nothing Can Be Done Number One OFF NIGHT BACKSTREET One Tin Soldier One Week Last Summer Otis And Marlena Overture Cotton Avenue Overture-Cotton Avenue Paprika Plains Passion Play Passion Play (When All the Slaves Are Free) Peoples Parties Play Little David POOR SAD BABY Priest Rainy Night House Rays Dads Cadillac Real Good for Free Refuge Of The Roads Roses Blue Same Situation See You Sometime Sex Kills Shades Of Scarlet Conquering Shadows And Light Shine Shiny Toys Silky Veils of Ardor Sisotowbell Lane SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM Slouching Towards Bethlehem Smokin Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) Snakes And Ladders Solid Love SOMETIMES I Sometimes Im Happy Song For Sharon Song For Sharon Bell Song To A Seagull Songs To Aging Children Come Stay In Touch Stormy Weather Strange Boy STRAW-FLOWER ME Strong And Wrong Sunny Sunday Sweet Bird Sweet Sucker Dance Sweetheart Like You Talk To Me TAMING THE TIGER Tax Free Tea Leaf Prophecy That Song About The Midway The Arrangement The Beat Of Black Wings The Boho Dance The Crazy Cries Of Love The Dawntreader The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines The Fiddle And The Drum The Gallery THE GIFT OF THE MAGI The Hissing Of Summer Lawns The Jungle Line The Last Time I Saw Richard The Last Time I Saw Richard 2 The Magdalene Laundries The Midnight Cowboy Song The Only Joy In Town The Pirate Of Penance The Priest The Reoccuring Dream The Same Situation The Silky Veils Of Ardor The Sire Of Sorrow The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) The Tea Leaf Prophecy The Tenth World The Three Great Stimulants THE WAY IT IS The Windfall The Windfall (Everything for Nothing) The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey Third World Man This Flight Tonight This Place Tiger Bones Tin Angel Trouble Child Trouble Man Turbulent Indigo Twisted Two Grey Rooms Underneath The Streetlight WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND Why Do Fools Fall in Love? Wild Things Run Fast Willy WINTER LADY Woman Of Heart And Mind Woman of Heart Mind You Dream Flat Tires Youre My Thrill (Youre So Square) Baby I Dont Care Youve Changed Yvette In English
Other Songs A Bird That Whistles A Case of You A Chair In The Sky A Melody In Your Name A Midsummer Night's Dream A Strange Boy All I Want Amelia Answer Me My Love Arrangement At Last Bad Dreams BALLERINA VALERIE Banquet Barangrill Be Cool Big Yellow Taxi 2007 Black Crow Blonde In The Bleachers Blue Blue Boy Blue Motel Room BLUE ON BLUE Borderline (BORN TO) TAKE THE HIGHWAY BRANDY EYES Cactus Tree Car On A Hill CARAS CASTLE CARNIVAL IN KENORA Cherokee Louise Chinese Cafe Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody Circle Game Coin In The Pocket Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire Cold Blue Steel Sweet Fire Come To The Sunshine Comes Love COMING CLEAN Conversation Cool Water Court And Spark Coyote Daisy Summer Piper Dancin Clown DAY AFTER DAY Doctor Junk Dog Eat Dog Don Juans Reckless Daughter Dont Go To Strangers Dont Interrupt The Sorrow DONT WORRY BOUT ME Down To You Dreamland EASTERN RAIN Edith And The Kingpin Electricity Ethiopia Face Lift Fiction For Free For The Roses Funeral Funeral (Rap) Furry Sings The Blues GEMINI TWIN Gift of the Magi GO TELL THE DRUMMER MAN God Must Be A Boogie Man Good Friends Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Hana Happy Birthday 1975 Harlem In Havana Harry's House HARRYS HOUSE CENTERPIECE Harry's House/Centerpiece Hejira HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW How Do You Stop? HUNTER Hunter (The Good Samaritan) I COME I Dont Know Where I Stand I Had A King I Think I Understand I Wish I Had A River I Wish I Were In Love Again I Wont Cry If If I Had A Heart Impossible Dreamer In France They Kiss On Main Street Its A Muggin It's All Over Now, Baby Blue JEREMY Jericho Judgement Of The Moon And Stars Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) Judgement of The Moon Stars Just Like Me Just Like This Train Ladies Man Ladies Of The Canyon Lakota Last Chance Lost Lead Balloon Lesson In Survival Let The Wind Carry Me LITTLE DAVID Little Green London Bridge Lonely Avenue Love LOVE IS LIKE A BIG BRASS BAND Love or Money Love Puts On A New Face Lucky Lucky Girl Magdalene Laundries Man From Mars Man To Man Marcie Melody In Your Name Michael From Mountains Midnight Cowboy MIDNIGHT COWBOY SONG THE Midsummer Morning MISTER BLUE Moon At The Window Moon In The Mirror Morning Morgantown Mr. Blue My Best To You My Old Man My Secret Place Nathan La Franeer Night In The City Night Of The Iguana Night Ride Home No Apologies Not To Blame Nothing Can Be Done Number One OFF NIGHT BACKSTREET One Tin Soldier One Week Last Summer Otis And Marlena Overture Cotton Avenue Overture-Cotton Avenue Paprika Plains Passion Play Passion Play (When All the Slaves Are Free) Peoples Parties Play Little David POOR SAD BABY Priest Rainy Night House Rays Dads Cadillac Real Good for Free Refuge Of The Roads Roses Blue Same Situation See You Sometime Sex Kills Shades Of Scarlet Conquering Shadows And Light Shine Shiny Toys Silky Veils of Ardor Sisotowbell Lane SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM Slouching Towards Bethlehem Smokin Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) Snakes And Ladders Solid Love SOMETIMES I Sometimes Im Happy Song For Sharon Song For Sharon Bell Song To A Seagull Songs To Aging Children Come Stay In Touch Stormy Weather Strange Boy STRAW-FLOWER ME Strong And Wrong Sunny Sunday Sweet Bird Sweet Sucker Dance Sweetheart Like You Talk To Me TAMING THE TIGER Tax Free Tea Leaf Prophecy That Song About The Midway The Arrangement The Beat Of Black Wings The Boho Dance The Crazy Cries Of Love The Dawntreader The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines The Fiddle And The Drum The Gallery THE GIFT OF THE MAGI The Hissing Of Summer Lawns The Jungle Line The Last Time I Saw Richard The Last Time I Saw Richard 2 The Magdalene Laundries The Midnight Cowboy Song The Only Joy In Town The Pirate Of Penance The Priest The Reoccuring Dream The Same Situation The Silky Veils Of Ardor The Sire Of Sorrow The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) The Tea Leaf Prophecy The Tenth World The Three Great Stimulants THE WAY IT IS The Windfall The Windfall (Everything for Nothing) The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey Third World Man This Flight Tonight This Place Tiger Bones Tin Angel Trouble Child Trouble Man Turbulent Indigo Twisted Two Grey Rooms Underneath The Streetlight WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND Why Do Fools Fall in Love? Wild Things Run Fast Willy WINTER LADY Woman Of Heart And Mind Woman of Heart Mind You Dream Flat Tires Youre My Thrill (Youre So Square) Baby I Dont Care Youve Changed Yvette In English
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her personal lyrics and unconventional compositions which grew to incorporate pop and jazz elements. She has received many accolades, including eleven Grammy Awards and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Rolling Stone called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic has stated, "Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century."
Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon and throughout western Canada, before moving on to the nightclubs of Toronto. She moved to the United States and began touring in 1965. Some of her original songs ("Urge for Going", "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", "The Circle Game") were recorded by other folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her debut album, Song to a Seagull, in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell helped define an era and a generation with popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock". Her 1971 album Blue is often cited as one of the greatest albums of all time; it was rated the 30th best album ever made in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", rising to number 3 in the 2020 edition. In 2000, The New York Times chose Blue as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music". NPR ranked Blue number 1 on a 2017 list of Greatest Albums Made By Women.
Mitchell began exploring more jazz-influenced ideas on 1974's Court and Spark, which featured the radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris" and became her best-selling album. Mitchell's vocal range began to shift from mezzo-soprano to that of a wide-ranging contralto around 1975. Her distinctive piano and open-tuned guitar compositions also grew more harmonically and rhythmically complex as she melded jazz with rock and roll, R&B, classical music and non-Western beats. Starting in the mid-1970s, she began working with noted jazz musicians including Jaco Pastorius, Tom Scott, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Pat Metheny as well as Charles Mingus, who asked her to collaborate on his final recordings. She later turned to pop and electronic music and engaged in political protest. She was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.
Mitchell produced or co-produced most of her albums and designed most of her own album covers, describing herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance". A critic of the music industry, she quit touring and released her 19th and last album of original songs in 2007. She gave occasional interviews and made appearances to speak on various causes over the next two decades, though the rupture of a brain aneurysm in 2015 led to a long period of recovery and therapy. A series of retrospective compilations were released over the time period, culminating in the Joni Mitchell Archives, a project to publish much of the unreleased material from her long career.
She returned to public appearances in 2021, accepting several awards in person, including a Kennedy Center Honor. Mitchell returned to live performance with an unannounced show at the June 2022 Newport Folk Festival and has made several other appearances since, including a headlining show in 2023.
Birth Name: Roberta Joan AndersonMitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon and throughout western Canada, before moving on to the nightclubs of Toronto. She moved to the United States and began touring in 1965. Some of her original songs ("Urge for Going", "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", "The Circle Game") were recorded by other folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her debut album, Song to a Seagull, in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell helped define an era and a generation with popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock". Her 1971 album Blue is often cited as one of the greatest albums of all time; it was rated the 30th best album ever made in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", rising to number 3 in the 2020 edition. In 2000, The New York Times chose Blue as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music". NPR ranked Blue number 1 on a 2017 list of Greatest Albums Made By Women.
Mitchell began exploring more jazz-influenced ideas on 1974's Court and Spark, which featured the radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris" and became her best-selling album. Mitchell's vocal range began to shift from mezzo-soprano to that of a wide-ranging contralto around 1975. Her distinctive piano and open-tuned guitar compositions also grew more harmonically and rhythmically complex as she melded jazz with rock and roll, R&B, classical music and non-Western beats. Starting in the mid-1970s, she began working with noted jazz musicians including Jaco Pastorius, Tom Scott, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Pat Metheny as well as Charles Mingus, who asked her to collaborate on his final recordings. She later turned to pop and electronic music and engaged in political protest. She was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.
Mitchell produced or co-produced most of her albums and designed most of her own album covers, describing herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance". A critic of the music industry, she quit touring and released her 19th and last album of original songs in 2007. She gave occasional interviews and made appearances to speak on various causes over the next two decades, though the rupture of a brain aneurysm in 2015 led to a long period of recovery and therapy. A series of retrospective compilations were released over the time period, culminating in the Joni Mitchell Archives, a project to publish much of the unreleased material from her long career.
She returned to public appearances in 2021, accepting several awards in person, including a Kennedy Center Honor. Mitchell returned to live performance with an unannounced show at the June 2022 Newport Folk Festival and has made several other appearances since, including a headlining show in 2023.
Also Known As: Roberta Joan Mitchell, Joni Anderson
Born: November 7, 1943 (age 80)
From: Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Spouse(s): Chuck Mitchell (m. 1965; div. 1967)
Larry Klein (m. 1982; div. 1994)
Children: 1
Genre(s): Folk, pop, jazz, rock
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar, piano, dulcimer
Occupation(s): Singer-songwriter, painter
Active From: 1964-2002, 2006-2007, 2013, 2022-present