Ladies' Man Joni Mitchell

Well, I've heard of heartbreakers But you take the cake Ladies' man You could charm the diamonds Off a rattlesnake Ladies' man Ladies bring it on over When you give 'em the glance They don't stand a chance

THE WOLF THAT LIVES IN LINDSEY Joni Mitchell

belief Girls in chilly blouses The blizzards come and go The stab and glare and buckshot Of the heavy heavy snow It comes and goes It comes and goes The cops don't seem to care For derelicts or ladies

LADIES OF THE CANYON Joni Mitchell

she gathers flowers for her home For her home she gathers flowers And Estrella, dear companion Colors up the sunshine hours Pouring music down the canyon- Coloring the sunshine hours They are the ladies

HELP ME Joni Mitchell

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

I HAD A KING Joni Mitchell

ring He's cleaned with the tears Of an actor who fears for the laughter's sting- (CHORUS) I can't go back there anymore You know my keys won't fit the door You know my thoughts don't fit the man

MAN TO MAN Joni Mitchell

No demands Just pleasurable sensations Hand in hand No far reaching plans No, no-hand in hand Well I keep on trying to understand Daylight bright How come I keep moving From man to man to man

THE GALLERY Joni Mitchell

When I first saw your gallery I liked the ones of ladies Then you began to hang up me You studied to portray me In ice and greens And old blue jeans And naked in the roses Then you got into funny

I Don't Know Where I Stand Joni Mitchell

alone in California and talking to you And feeling too foolish and strange to say the words that I had planned I guess it's too early, 'cause I don't know where I stand Crickets call, courting their ladies

MY OLD MAN Joni Mitchell

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

MAN FROM MARS Joni Mitchell

Man from Mars This time you went too far I fall apart Everytime I think of you Swallowed by the dark There is no center to my life now No grace in my heart Man from Mars This time you went too

MORNING MORGANTOWN Joni Mitchell

your dreams a dollar down Morning any town you name Morning's just the same We'll find a table in the shade And sip our tea and lemonade And watch the morning on parade In morning, Morgantown Ladies

FREE MAN IN PARIS Joni Mitchell

always somebody calling you down I do my best And I do good business There's a lot of people asking for my time They're trying to get ahead They're trying to be a good friend of mine I was a free man

BLONDE IN THE BLEACHERS Joni Mitchell

nature of the race It's the unknown child So sweet and wild It's youth It's too good to waste She tapes her regrets To the microphone stand She says "You can't hold the hand Of a Rock'n'Roll man

EDITH AND THE KINGPIN Joni Mitchell

The big man arrives Disco dancers greet him Plainclothes cops greet him Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening Sophomore jive From victims of typewriters The band sounds like typewriters

LUCKY GIRL Joni Mitchell

I never loved a man I trusted As far as I could pitch my shoe 'Til I loved you You're my lucky star You're my magician You make the night prowling disappear Vanished from the star-war-bars Empty

Lucky Girl (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I'm a lucky girl I found my friend I've been all around the world Mission Impossible Chasing the rainbow's end Wise guys Shy guys And sly lover boys With big bad bedroom eyes I never loved a man I trusted

THE ONLY JOY IN TOWN Joni Mitchell

I want to paint a picture Botticelli style Instead of Venus on a clam I'd paint this flower child "You are the air my flowers breathe" He calls, and the ladies turn around On the first day of Spring

The Only Joy In Town (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I want to paint a picture Botticelli style Instead of Venus on a clam I'd paint this flower child You are the air my flowers breathe He calls, and the ladies turn around On the first day of Spring I'm

GOD MUST BE A BOOGIE MAN Joni Mitchell

what he sees To the other two To the one attacking--so afraid And the one that keeps trying to love and trust And getting himself betrayed In the plan--oh The divine plan God must be a boogie man

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

SHADOWS AND LIGHT Joni Mitchell

Critics of all expression Judges in black and white Saying it's wrong, saying it's right Compelled by prescribed standards Or some ideals we fight For wrong, wrong and right Threatened by all things 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

Funeral Joni Mitchell

[Charles:] "No man, no big church! I'm going to be buried man - I got my shit all figured out!" [Swede:] "You're going to get a big funeral - you're famous!"

A BIRD THAT WHISTLES Joni Mitchell

I took a house by the water Took a man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside Last time I saw that man He hung down his head and cried Corrina, Corrina Do

A Bird That Whistles (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I took a house by the water Took a man on a mountainside Pretty house by the water Lovely lover by the waterside Last time I saw that man He hung down his head and cried Corrina, Corrina Do you have to

CACTUS TREE Joni Mitchell

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

Stormy Weather Joni Mitchell

Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps rainin' all of the time Life is bare Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather Just can't

The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) Joni Mitchell

(Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow) I've lost all taste for life I'm all complaints Tell me why do you starve the faithful? Why do you crucify the saints?

The Sire of Sorrow Joni Mitchell

(Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow) I've lost all taste for life I'm all complaints Tell me why do you starve the faithful? Why do you crucify the saints?

Strong And Wrong Joni Mitchell

Oh the dawn of man comes slow Thousands of years And here we are... Still worshiping Our own ego Strong and wrong What is God's will? Onward Christian soldiers... Or thou shall not kill...

NO APOLOGIES Joni Mitchell

Lawyers and loan sharks Are laying America to waste So what makes a man a man In these tough times As druglords buy up the banks And warlords radiate the oceans Ecosystems fail Snakes and snails

TAMING THE TIGER Joni Mitchell

The old man is snoring And I'm taming the tiger (You can't tame the tiger) Tiger, tiger burning bright Nice, kitty kitty Tiger, tiger burning bright Sophia says "It's hard to catch And harder

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

if with my weak faith The spirit of this world Would heal and rise Vast are the shadows That straddle and strafe And struggle in the darkness Troubling my eyes Shaped like a lion It has the head of a man

LEAD BALLOON Joni Mitchell

It's his town And that went down Like a lead balloon Lead lead lead lead balloon He said "Sic her, Rover" That went over Like a lead balloon Lead lead lead lead balloon Lead balloon An angry man

HARLEM IN HAVANA Joni Mitchell

At the far end of the midway by the double ferris wheel There's a band that plays so snakey You can't help how you feel Emmie Mae ran away With a man as dark as night You can see him, if you go

Happy Birthday 1975 Joni Mitchell

[Man:] "Ready?" [Sue:] "Alright!" [Chorus:] "Happy Birthday to Charles, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Charles..." [Sue:] "Play that weird minor chord..."

YOU DREAM FLAT TIRES Joni Mitchell

'Cause love is precious love You said it was precious When first you felt my fire Before you dreamed flat tires You dreamed flat tires You dream flat tires "Woman she bounce back easy But a man

SHINY TOYS Joni Mitchell

Shiny toys Simple joys Walking on the beach at the end of the day Between the sand and the seagulls Watching the glorious sun setting on the bay Here comes a boy and his beagle Walking with a man

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

JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN Joni Mitchell

'Cause you lost your heart I went looking for a cause Or a strong cat without claws Or any reason to resume And I found this empty seat In this crowded waiting room (Everybody waiting) Old man

Shiny Toys (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Porsche Shiny toys Simple joys Walking on the beach at the end of the day Between the sand and the seagulls Watching the glorious sun setting on the bay Here comes a boy and his beagle Walking with a man

TAX FREE Joni Mitchell

Who, who "Your children are" Pissed off Jacked up Scream into the mike Spit into the loving cup Strut like a rooster March like a man God's hired hands and the devil bands Packing the same grandstands

Tax Free (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

dollars Tax free A hundred billion dollars And who is paying the price Who, who Your children are Pissed off Jacked up Scream into the mike Spit into the loving cup Strut like a rooster March like a man

RAINY NIGHT HOUSE Joni Mitchell

small white bed I fell into a dream You sat up all the night and watched me To see, who in the world I might be I am from the Sunday school I sing soprano in the upstairs choir You are a holy man

FOR FREE Joni Mitchell

play for fortunes And those velvet curtain calls I've got a black limousine And two gentlemen Escorting me to the halls And I play if you have the money Or if you're a friend to me But the one man

BIG YELLOW TAXI Joni Mitchell

seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi Took away my old man

COOL WATER Joni Mitchell

taste of water Cool water Old Dan and I Our throats slate dry Our spirits cry out for water Cool clear water Keep on movin' Dan Some devils had a plan Buried poison in the sand Don't drink it man

Big Yellow Taxi (2007) Joni Mitchell

Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi come and took away my old man.

Cool Water (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Without a taste of water Cool water Old Dan and I Our throats slate dry Our spirits cry out for water Cool clear water Keep on movin' Dan Some devils had a plan Buried poison in the sand Don't drink it man

WOODSTOCK Joni Mitchell

ourselves Back to the garden Then can I walk beside you I have come here to lose the smog And I feel to be a cog in something turning Well maybe it is just the time of year Or maybe it's the time of man