CAR ON A HILL Joni Mitchell

I've been sitting up waiting for my sugar to show I've been listening to the sirens and the radio He said he'd be over three hours ago I've been waiting for his car on the hill He makes friends easy

SISOTOWBELL LANE Joni Mitchell

Sisotowbell Lane Noah is fixing the pump in the rain He brings us no shame We always knew that he always knew Up over the hill Jovial neighbors come down when they will With stories to tell Sometimes

The Reoccurring Dream Joni Mitchell

look like movie stars Movie stars, movie stars, movie stars Order your youth secrets of the stars Call now--just $9.99 Our discontent is their delight They offer relief for the purchase price Love in a

The Reocurring Dream Joni Mitchell

look like movie stars Movie stars, movie stars, movie stars Order your youth secrets of the stars Call now--just $9.99 Our discontent is their delight They offer relief for the purchase price Love in a

THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS Joni Mitchell

He bought her a diamond for her throat He put her in a ranch house on a hill She could see the valley barbecues From her window sill See the blue pools in the squinting sun Hear the hissing of summer

THE REOCCURING DREAM Joni Mitchell

bottle Love on four wheels Is that our new car Charles?

The Reoccurring Dream (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

isn't it true Good question I know who cares Look here they tell you If you had this If you had that Latest styles and colors If we had that for us mmmmm Wouldn't it be fabulous If you had that house, car

WILLY Joni Mitchell

lady all my life He says he'd love to live with me But for an ancient injury That has not healed He said I feel once again Like I gave my heart too soon He stood looking thru the lace At the face on

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

TAMING THE TIGER Joni Mitchell

I stepped outside to breathe the air And stare up at the stars Big dipper hanging there Over the rented car Over the rented car I'm a runaway from the record biz From the hoods in the hood and

JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN Joni Mitchell

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 on my side Lately I don't count

THE CIRCLE GAME Joni Mitchell

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons

The Circle Game (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons

Circle Game Joni Mitchell

"Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons Skated

The Windfall (Everything For Nothing) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

So you want me to buy you a car Why Because Elvis did Darlin' come on Because Elvis gave 'em cars You think I'm cheap And you're hard done by Look you live here like a star Rent free suite Big blue pool

NUMBER ONE Joni Mitchell

Got to be a winner--trophy winner Get to hold your head up high up! Number one! Got to be a winner--trophy winner Get to hold your head up high up! Number one!

Number One (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Got to be a winner trophy winner Get to hold your head up high up Number one Got to be a winner trophy winner Get to hold your head up high up Number one Number one Number one Honey tell me When your working

RAISED ON ROBBERY Joni Mitchell

He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel He was drinking for diversion He was thinking for himself A little money riding on the Maple Leafs Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves She says...

THE TENTH WORLD Joni Mitchell

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 cook's got a carnival song We're going

Dreamland Joni Mitchell

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 cook's got a carnival song We're going to lay

RIVER Joni Mitchell

It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays

THE ARRANGEMENT Joni Mitchell

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 While you still have the time You could get away and

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?

A CASE OF YOU Joni Mitchell

Just before our love got lost you said, "I am as constant as a northern star." And I said, "Constantly in the darkness Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar."

Shine Joni Mitchell

on our Frankenstein technologies Shine on science With its tunnel vision Shine on fertile farmland Buried under subdivisions Let your little light shine Let your little light shine Shine on the dazzling

THE JUNGLE LINE Joni Mitchell

through jails and gospel pews Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine Through Europe and the deep deep heart of Dixie blue Through savage progress cuts the jungle line In a low-cut blouse

A Case Of You Joni Mitchell

Just before our love got lost you said, "I am as constant as a northern star." And I said, "Constantly in the darkness Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

SHINY TOYS Joni Mitchell

Shiny toys--right on time Shiny toys--right on time Shiny toys I'm reading people rags in the checkout lane Look, here's a hunk--here's a honey Celebrated people and their claims to fame Here's

Shiny Toys (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Shiny toys right on time Shiny toys right on time Shiny toys I'm reading people rags in the checkout lane Look, here's a hunk here's a honey Celebrated people and their claims to fame Here's a boy and

CAREY Joni Mitchell

my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne Oh Carey get out your cane And I'll put on some silver Oh you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you fine Come on down to the Mermaid Cafe and I will

A Strange Boy Joni Mitchell

A strange boy is weaving A course of grace and havoc On a yellow skateboard Thru midday sidewalk traffic Just when I think he's foolish and childish And I want him to be manly I catch my fool and my child

CHELSEA MORNING Joni Mitchell

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I heard Was a song outside my window, and the traffic wrote the words It came a-reeling up like Christmas bells, and rapping up like pipes

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

THE BOHO DANCE Joni Mitchell

It's an old romance-the Boho dance It hasn't gone to sleep But even on the scuffle The cleaner's press was in my jeans And any eye for detail Caught a little lace along the seams And you were

PAPRIKA PLAINS Joni Mitchell

It fell from midnight skies It drummed on the galvanized In the washroom, women tracked the rain Up to the make-up mirror Liquid soap and grass And Jungle Gardenia crash On Pine-Sol and beer ..

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...

COYOTE Joni Mitchell

No regrets Coyote We just come from such different sets of circumstance I'm up all night in the studios And you're up early on your ranch You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail While the sun

GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT Joni Mitchell

When Charlie speaks of Lester You know someone great has gone The sweetest swinging music man Had a Porkie Pig hat on A bright star In a dark age When the bandstands had a thousand ways Of refusing

FOR FREE Joni Mitchell

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 standing on a noisy corner Waiting for

SONG TO A SEAGULL Joni Mitchell

Fly silly seabird No dreams can possess you No voices can blame you For sun on your wings My gentle relations Have names they must call me For loving the freedom Of all flying things My dreams

Hana Joni Mitchell

Hana steps out of a storm Into a stranger's warm, but Hard-up kitchen. She sees what must be done So she takes off her coat Rolls up her sleeves And starts pitchin' in.

ETHIOPIA Joni Mitchell

Hot winds and hunger cries--Ethiopia Flies in your babies' eyes--Ethiopia Walking sticks on burning plains Betrayed by politics Abandoned by the rains On and on--the human need On and on--the human

Ethiopia (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Hot winds and hunger cries Ethiopia Flies in your babies' eyes Ethiopia Walking sticks on burning plains Betrayed by politics Abandoned by the rains On and on the human need On and on the human greed profanes

THAT SONG ABOUT THE MIDWAY Joni Mitchell

I met you on a midway at a fair last year And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear You were playing on the horses, you were playing on the guitar strings You were playing like a devil wearing

THE BEAT OF BLACK WINGS Joni Mitchell

I met a young soldier He said his name was Killer Kyle He was shakin' all over Like a night-frightened child This is his story It's a tough one for me to sing Hard as the squawk and the flap And

The Beat Of Black Wings (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I met a young soldier He said his name was Killer Kyle He was shakin' all over Like a night frightened child This is his story It's a tough one for me to sing Hard as the squawk and the flap And the beat

STRANGE BOY Joni Mitchell

A strange boy is weaving A course of grace and havoc On a yellow skateboard Thru midday sidewalk traffic Just when I think he's foolish and childish And I want him to be manly I catch my fool and

UNDERNEATH THE STREETLIGHT Joni Mitchell

I swear on the stars above I do! I swear on the streetlight on the corner Shoving back the shadows!

MICHAEL FROM MOUNTAINS Joni Mitchell

Michael wakes you up with sweets He takes you up streets and the rain comes down Sidewalk markets locked up tight And umbrellas bright on a grey background There's oil on the puddles in taffeta patterns

Judgement of the Moon and Stars Joni Mitchell

warm, warm body Loving your touch" In the court they carve your legend With an apple in its jaw And the women that you wanted They get their laughs Long silk stockings On the bedposts of