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susano
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5/20/2008 9:59 PM
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Tribute to the greatest songwriter ever: Joni Mitchell

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I went to Staten Island, Sharon
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 going to see that dress
And crave that day like crazy

Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada
They can balance and they can climb
Like their fathers before them
They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline
Shine your light on me Miss Liberty
Because as soon as this ferry boat docks
I'm headed to the church
To play Bingo
Fleece me with the gamblers' flocks

I can keep my cool at poker
But I'm a fool when love's at stake
Because I can't conceal emotion
What I'm feeling's always written on my face
There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street
I went in to see her as a kind of joke
And she lit a candle for my love luck
And eighteen bucks went up in smoke

Sharon I left my man
At a North Dakota junction
And I came out to the "Big Apple" here
To face the dream's malfunction
Love's a repetitious danger
You'd think I'd be accustomed to
Well I do accept the changes
At least better than I used to do

A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
and so far from satisfaction

Dora says "Have children"
Mama and Betsy say "Find yourself a charity
Help the needy and the crippled or put some time into Ecology"
Well there's a wide wide world of noble causes
And lovely landscapes to discover
But all I really want right now
Is find another lover

When we were kids in Maidstone, Sharon
I went to every wedding in that little town
To see the tears and the kisses
And the pretty lady in the white lace wedding gown
And walking home on the railroad tracks
Or swinging on the playground swing
Love stimulated my illusions
More than anything

And when I went skating after Golden Reggie
You know it was white lace I was chasing
Chasing dreams
Mama's nylons underneath my cowgirl jeans
He showed me first you get the kisses
And then you get the tears
But the ceremony of the bells and lace
Still veils this reckless fool here

Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink
Circling in singles and in pairs
In this vigorous anonymity
A blank face at the window stares and
stares and stares and stares and stares
And the power of reason
And the flowers of deep feeling
Seem to serve me
Only to deceive me

Sharon you've got a husband
And a family and a farm
I've got the apple of temptation
And a diamond snake around my arm
But you still have your music
And I've still got my eyes on the land and the sky
You sing for your friends and your family
I'll walk green pastures by and by

[link to jonimitchell.com]

Anonymous Coward
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5/20/2008 10:07 PM

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susano
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5/20/2008 10:16 PM

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The Beat of Black Wings

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 the beat of black wings

"They gave me a gun" he said
"They gave me a mission
For the power and the glory
Propaganda piss on 'em
There's a war zone inside me
I can feel things exploding
I can't even hear the fucking music playing
For the beat of the beat of black wings"

He said "I never had nothin'
Nothin' I could believe in
My girl killed our unborn child
Without even grievin
I put my hands on her belly
To feel the kid kickin' damn!
She'd been to some clinic
Oh the beat of black wings"

"They want you they need you
They train you to kill
To be a pin on some map
Some vicarious thrill
The old hate the young
That's the whole heartless thing
The old pick the wars
We die in 'em
To the beat of the beat of black wings"

There's a man drawing pictures
On the sidewalk with chalk
Just as fast as he draws 'em
Rain come down and wash 'em off
"Keep the drinks comin' girl
'Til I can't feel anything
I'm just a chalk mark in a rainstorm
I'm just the beat of black wings

[link to jonimitchell.com]

And So It Begins....
User ID: 368906
5/20/2008 10:20 PM

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Joni Mitchell - Help Me I'm Falling (In Love Again) [link to www.youtube.com] And So It Begins....

mellokind
User ID: 379204
5/20/2008 10:30 PM

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Quoting: Anonymous Coward 436424 nice find............. ohhhh soooo nice......... wow

wonbyOne
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5/20/2008 10:31 PM

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Love Joni - - got to see her in '83 - - awesome!

Although I speak in tongues
Of men and angels
I'm just sounding brass
And tinkling cymbals
Without love--

Love suffers long--
Love is kind--
Enduring all things--
Hoping all things--
Love has no evil in mind

If I had the gift of prophecy--
And all knowledge--
And the faith to move the mountains
Even if I understood all of the mysteries--
If I didn't have love
I'd be nothing

Love--never looks for love--
Love's not puffed up--
Or envious--
Or touchy--
Because it rejoices in the truth
Not in iniquity
Love sees like a child sees

As a child I spoke as a child--
I thought and I understood as a child--
But when I became a woman--
I put away childish things
And began to see
Through a glass darkly

Where, as a child, I saw it face to face
Now, I only know it in part
Fractions in me
Of faith and hope and love
And of these great three
Love's the greatest beauty

Love
Love
Love

Love (1 Corinthians 13) / Blue

mellokind
User ID: 379204
5/20/2008 10:35 PM

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i know this a joni mitchell thread, and i give all the love i can share to her too......but in honor of a thread about great musicians, and upon being reminded of the long black veil, i must post..............

kirkita
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5/20/2008 11:41 PM

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Joni is absolutely the best and speaks way too much truth- that's why you never hear her on the airwaves, and only the blather and filler that was pumped out in the 70's. I got the Herbie Hancock tribute CD and the only vocalist who could hold a candle to Joni was Tina Turner, the rest were barely in tune and didn't sound like they understood what the songs were saying. They should have just given the Grammy to Joni straight away.

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10/7/2008 11:10 PM

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10/8/2008 7:13 AM

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