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

CHEROKEE LOUISE Joni Mitchell

Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel In the Broadway bridge We're crawling on our knees We've got flashlights and batteries We've got cold cuts from the fridge Last year about this time We

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

BLACK CROW Joni Mitchell

There's a crow flying Black and ragged Tree to tree He's black as the highway that's leading me Now he's diving down To pick up on something shiny I feel like that black crow Flying In a blue

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Joni Mitchell

the romance of the crime But didn't I see a neon sign Fester on your hotel blind And a country road come off the wall And swoop down at the crowd at the bar And put me at the top of your danger list Just

THE CRAZY CRIES OF LOVE Joni Mitchell

It was a dark and a stormy night Everyone was at the wing-ding They weren't the wing-ding type So they went up on the train bridge Where the weather was howling And oh, oh, my my When that train

This Place Joni Mitchell

Sparkle on the ocean Eagle at the top of a tree Those crazy crows always making a commotion This land is home to me.

SOLID LOVE Joni Mitchell

Let nobody put asunder this solid love . . .

THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT Joni Mitchell

me That night down south between the trailers Not the early one That you can wish upon; Not the northern one That guides in the sailors Oh starbright, starbright You've got the lovin' that I like

STAY IN TOUCH Joni Mitchell

This is really something People will be envious But our roles aren't clear So we musn't rush Still, we're burning brightly Clinging like fire to fuel I'm grinning like a fool Stay in touch We

BORDERLINE Joni Mitchell

Everybody looks so ill at ease So distrustful so displeased Running down the table I see a borderline Like a barbed wire fence Strung tight, strung tense Prickling with pretense A borderline

COURT AND SPARK Joni Mitchell

He thought for sure I'd seen him Dancing up a river in the dark Looking for a woman To court and spark He was playing on the sidewalk For passing change When something strange happened Glory train

SEX KILLS Joni Mitchell

I pulled up behind a Cadillac; We were waiting for the light; And I took a look at his license plate- It said, "Just Ice." Is justice just ice? Governed by greed and lust?

COYOTE Joni Mitchell

is ascending And I'll just be getting home with my reel to reel...

If I Had A Heart Joni Mitchell

How can this be holy? If I had a heart I'd cry. These ancient tales... The good go to heaven And the wicked ones burn in hell... Ring the funeral bells! If I had a heart I'd cry.

MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES Joni Mitchell

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into

The Magdalene Laundries Joni Mitchell

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into the Magdalene

THE SILKY VEILS OF ARDOR Joni Mitchell

I am a poor wayfaring stranger Traveling through all these highs and lows I heard there was no sickness And no toil or danger Just mercy and plenty Where peaceful waters flow Where peaceful waters

SWEET SUCKER DANCE Joni Mitchell

They'd turn my heart against you Since I was fool enough To find romance I'm trying to convince myself This is just a dance!

Sweet Sucka Dance Joni Mitchell

Tonight the shadows had their say Their sad notions of the way Things really are Damn these blues They'd turn my heart against you Since I was fool enough To find romance I'm trying to convince myself This

The Reoccurring Dream Joni Mitchell

jar Your lovers would 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

The Reocurring Dream Joni Mitchell

jar Your lovers would 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

THE BOHO DANCE Joni Mitchell

Down in the cellar in the Boho zone I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well Just another hard-time band With Negro affectations I was a hopeful in rooms like this When I was working cheap

AMELIA Joni Mitchell

across the burning desert When I spotted six jet planes Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain It was the hexagram of the heavens it was the strings of my guitar Amelia, it was just

THE REOCCURING DREAM Joni Mitchell

bottle, jar Your lovers would 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

The Reoccurring Dream (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

styles and colors If we had that for us mmmmm Wouldn't it be fabulous If you had that house, car, bottle, jar Your lovers would look like movie stars Movie stars, movie stars, movie stars Order your youth

NIGHT RIDE HOME Joni Mitchell

Once in a while In a big blue moon There comes a night like this Like some surrealist Invented this 4th of July Night ride home Hula girls And caterpillar tractors in the sand The ukulele man

Night Ride Home (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Once in a while In a big blue moon There comes a night like this Like some surrealist Invented this 4th of July Night ride home Hula girls And caterpillar tractors in the sand The ukulele man The fireworks

BARANGRILL Joni Mitchell

totals your bill You say "Show me the way To Barangrill" Well some say it's in service They say "Humble Makes Pure" You're hoping it's near Folly 'Cause you're headed that way for sure And you just

PAPRIKA PLAINS Joni Mitchell

I'm going outside to get some air Back in my hometown They would have cleared the floor Just to watch the rain come down! They're such sky oriented people-- Geared to changing weather ...

COME IN FROM THE COLD Joni Mitchell

Back in 1957 We had to dance a foot apart And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines Holding their rulers without a heart And so with just a touch of our fingers I could make our circuitry explode

HEJIRA Joni Mitchell

I'm traveling in some vehicle I'm sitting in some cafe A defector from the petty wars That shell shock love away There's comfort in melancholy When there's no need to explain It's just as natural

YVETTE IN ENGLISH Joni Mitchell

He met her in a French cafe She slipped in sideways like a cat Sidelong glances What a wary little stray! She sticks in his mind like that Saying, "Avez-vous un allumette?"

(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care Joni Mitchell

You're so square baby You're so square Oh, you don't like greasy diners You don't like sleazy bands You just want to go To a movie show And sit there holding hands You're so square Baby I don't care You

WOMAN OF HEART AND MIND Joni Mitchell

I am a woman of heart and mind With time on her hands No child to raise You come to me like a little boy And I give you my scorn and my praise You think I'm like your mother Or another lover or

LITTLE GREEN Joni Mitchell

He sends you a poem and she's lost to you Little green, he's a non-conformer CH0RUS: Just a little green Like the color when the spring is born There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow

JERICHO Joni Mitchell

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 said it like I finally found the way

THE LAST TIME I SAW RICHARD Joni Mitchell

he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe You laugh, he said you think you're immune, go look at your eyes They're full of moon You like

Last Time I Saw Richard Joni Mitchell

he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café You laugh he said you think you're immune Go look at your eyes they're full of moon You like

FOR THE ROSES Joni Mitchell

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 face to face Or seen you face to

For the Roses (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

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 face to face Or seen you face to

SEE YOU SOMETIME Joni Mitchell

Why do you have to be so jive O.K. hang up the phone It hurts But something survives Though it's undermined I'd still like to see you sometime I'm feeling so good And my friends all tell me That

COTTON AVENUE Joni Mitchell

sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights- Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue- That's where I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes If you got a place like

Overture - Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

singing sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue That's where I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes If you got a place like

Overture-Cotton Avenue Joni Mitchell

singing sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue That's where I'm going to take myself tonight With a spit shine on my dancing shoes If you got a place like

TROUBLE CHILD Joni Mitchell

your attitude's all wrong And you got to change And that's not easy Dragon shining with all values known Dazzling you-keeping you from your own Where is the lion in you to defy him When you're this

DOWN TO YOU Joni Mitchell

You go down to the pick up station Craving warmth and beauty You settle for less than fascination A few drinks later you're not so choosy When the closing lights strip off the shadows On this strange

THE DRY CLEANER FROM DES MOINES Joni Mitchell

He got three oranges Three lemons Three cherries Three plums I'm losing my taste for fruit Watching the dry cleaner do it Like Midas in a polyester suit It's all luck! It's just luck!

TAX FREE Joni Mitchell

There's evil in this land Evangelist: "Rock and roll music!" "Cast down these dope-fiends And there noisy bands!" "Damn their souls!"