by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

It's coming on Christmas And they're cutting down trees Putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on It don't snow here Stays pretty green I'm

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go? Don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and t

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of lands to see But I wouldn't want to stay

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun, they rain and they snow on everyone So many

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Just before our love got lost, you said I am as constant as a northern star And I said, constant in the darkness, where's that at? If you want me, I'll be in the bar On the back of a cartoon coaster

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I came upon a child of God He was walkin' along the road And I asked him, I said "Where're you going?" This he told me He said I'm goin' down to Yasgur's farm I'm gonna join in a Rock 'n' Roll band I

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

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 And the seasons they go round and round And the pain

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

My old man He's a singer in the park He's a walker in the rain He's a dancer in the dark We don't need no piece of paper from the City Hall Keeping us tied and true My old man Keeping away my blues

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

The wind is in from Africa, last night I couldn't sleep Oh you know it sure is hard to leave here Carey, but it's really not my home My fingernails are filthy, I've got beach tar on my feet And I miss

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Help me I think I'm falling in love again When I get that crazy feeling, I know I'm in trouble again I'm in trouble 'cause you're a rambler and a gambler And a sweet taIking ladies man and you love yo

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

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 Little Green, be a gypsy dancer He wen

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

"The way I see it", he said, you just can't win it Everybody's in it for their own gain you can't please 'em all There's always somebody calling you down I do my best and I do good business There's a

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

The priest sat in the airport bar He was wearing his father's tie And his eyes looked into my eyes so far Whenever the words ran dry Behind the lash and the circles blue He looked as only a priest can

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

If there's one rule to this game Everybody's gonna name, it's, be cool If you're worried or uncertain If your feelings are hurtin', you're a fool if you can't keep cool Charm 'em, don't alarm 'em Kee

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

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 reelin' up Like Christmas bells And rappin' up Like pipes and

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

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 With their amber stones and green He has ca

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I went to Staten Island 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 All for something lacy Some girl's g

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68 And 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

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

I was driving 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

by Joni Mitchell on album Miscellaneous

Oh, let your little light shine Let your little light shine Shine on Vegas and Wall Street Place your bets Shine on all the fishermen With nothing in their nets Shine on rising oceans And evaporatin