THE TEA LEAF PROPHECY Joni Mitchell

Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread-- The able-bodied

The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Lay 'em down lay 'em down now Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread The able bodied have shipped

The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) Joni Mitchell

Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Lay 'em down, lay 'em down now Study war no more Lay down your arms Study war no more Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread-- The able-bodied have shipped

Lakota (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I am Lakota Lakota Looking at money man Diggin' the deadly quotas Out of balance Out of hand We want the land Lay down the reeking ore Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees Everywhere you touch the

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

Tax Free (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Front rooms Back rooms Slide into tables Crowd into bathrooms Joke around Cheap talk Deep talk Talk, talk, talk around the clock Crawl home Lie down Teeth chatter Heart pounds I don't feel so good I don't

Dancin' Clown (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

No, you couldn't call Jesse a babe in the woods He's just weak in self defense 'Cause he's so thin skinned He can't take a joke at his expense You're a push button window, says Rowdy Yates I can run you

Good Friends (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I have to come and see you Maybe once or twice a year I think nothing would suit me better Right now Than some downtown atmosphere In the dance halls and the galleries Or betting in the OTB Synchronized

Shiny Toys (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

his money And pictures of the winners in the latest Ratepoll games Whatever makes you Yahoo Whatever makes your time feel satisfyin' Whatever makes you Oh I'm so excited Whatever makes you feel like you're

Fiction (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

papers Fiction of the image and the image makers Fiction of the magazines Fiction of the movies Fiction of the Buy me, Watch me, Listen to me I can't decide I'm so confused Which way to go I'm being useful

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

The Reoccurring Dream (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

This is the reoccurring dream Born in the dreary gap between What we have now And what we wish we could have More fulfilling and less frustrating Out of the envy in our eyes Look Glamorous picture people

Snakes And Ladders (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

the perfect air brushed angel Makes you hot just looking at her Stapled into all his braincells Like a centerfold Oh love is snakes and ladders Snakes and ladders Get to the top and slide back down Get

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

DOWN TO YOU Joni Mitchell

Everything comes and goes Marked by lovers and styles of clothes Things that you held high And told yourself were true Lost or changing as the days come down to you Down to you Constant stranger

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

Dog Eat Dog (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

It's dog eat dog I'm just waking up The dove is in the dungeon And the white washed hawks pedal hate and call it love Dog Eat Dog Holy hope in the hands of Snakebite evangelists and racketeers And big

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

church You chant For my downfall Chanting for my house My friends You want it all The pillows on my bed The visions in my head You want too much You want too badly You want everything for nothing In the

Impossible Dreamer (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

The street was loud From an angry crowd and I thought of you, I thought of you Dreamer Land of the free No hungry bellies Impossible Impossible dreamer In the darkest part of the night Blue shadows conjure

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

Cool Water (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

All day I face the barren waste 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

SONGS TO AGING CHILDREN COME Joni Mitchell

Through the windless wells of wonder By the throbbing light machine In a tea leaf trance or under Orders from the king and queen Songs to aging children come Aging children, I am one People

My Secret Place (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

appreciate I don't go there with anyone but You're a special case For my special place For my secret place People talk to tell you something Or to take up space Guess I'm only talking To be talking to Your

Two Grey Rooms (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Tomorrow is Sunday Now there's only one day left to go Till you walk by Below my window The weekends drive me mad Holidays are oh too sad 'Cause you don't go Below my window No one knows I'm here One day

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Turning and turning Within the widening grey The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The centre cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the world Nothing is sacred The ceremony

Ray's Dad's Cadillac (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Ray's Dad's Cadillac Rollin' past the rink Past the record shack Pink fins in the falling rain Rollin' To the blue lights past the water mains Ray's Dad's Cadillac Weekends we'd get Ray's Dad's Cadillac

The Three Great Stimulants (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

I picked the morning paper off the floor It was full of other people's little wars Wouldn't they like their peace Don't we get bored And we call for the three great stimulants Of the exhausted ones Artifice

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

MORNING MORGANTOWN Joni Mitchell

When morning comes to Morgantown The merchants roll their awnings down The milktrucks make their morning rounds In morning, Morgantown We'll rise up early, with the sun To ride the bus while everyone

LADIES OF THE CANYON Joni Mitchell

Trina wears her wampum beads She fills her drawing book with line Sewing lace on widows' weeds And filigree on leaf and vine Vine and leaf are filigree And her coat's a secondhand one Trimmed with

The Circle Game (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone

Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

you gonna get to do the dirty work When all the slaves are free Who're you gonna get I am up a sycamore Looking through the leaves A sinner of some position Who in the world can this heart healer be This

For the Roses (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

mark red ribbon runner The caressing rev of motors Finely tuned like fancy women In thirties evening gowns Up the charts Off to the airport- Your names in the news Everythings first class- The

The Only Joy In Town (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

looking at the only joy around He's the only joy around The only joy I found The only joy in town The Spanish steps are crowded Bunch of bodies brooding there Dead pan side walk vendors Hustling vacant

Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) (Album Version) Joni Mitchell

Try another, try another, try another, try anotherEmpty, empty try anotherTry another, try another, try another, try anotherEmpty, empty try anotherTry another, try another, try another, try anothe...

BLUE MOTEL ROOM Joni Mitchell

I've got a blue motel room With a blue bedspread I've got the blues inside and outside my head Will you still love me When I call you up when I'm down Here in Savannah it's pouring rain Palm trees

SWEET BIRD Joni Mitchell

Out on some borderline Some mark of inbetween I lay down golden-in time And woke up vanishing Sweet bird you are Briefer than a falling star All these vain promises on beauty jars Somewhere

THE TENTH WORLD Joni Mitchell

to lay down someplace shady With dreamland coming on Dreamland, dreamland Dreamland, dreamland Walter Raleigh and Chris Columbus Come marching out of the waves And claim the beach and all concessions

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

Love Joni Mitchell

- Enduring all things- Love has no evil in mind If I had the gift of prophecy- And all the knowledge- And the faith to move the mountains Even if I understood all of the mysteries- If I didn't

LOVE (CORINTHIANS II:13) Joni Mitchell

-- Enduring all things-- Love has no evil in mind If I had the gift of prophecy-- And all the knowledge-- And the faith to move the mountains Even if I understood all of the mysteries-- If I didn't

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?

AMELIA Joni Mitchell

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

YVETTE IN ENGLISH Joni Mitchell

He's fumbling with her foreign tongue; Reaching for words and drawing blanks A loud mouth is stricken deaf and dumb In a bistro on the left bank "If I were a painter," Picasso said, "I'd paint this

Big Yellow Taxi (LP Version) Joni Mitchell

With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don't it always 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 They took all the

LAKOTA Joni Mitchell

Looking at money man-- Diggin' the deadly quotas-- Out of balance-- Out of hand We want the land! Lay down the reeking ore! Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees?

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

THAT SONG ABOUT THE MIDWAY Joni Mitchell

wings, wearing wings You looked so grand wearing wings Do you tape them to your shoulders just to sing Can you fly I heard you can!

THE DAWNTREADER Joni Mitchell

of the harbor wake The songs that the rigging makes The taste of the spray he takes And he learns to give He aches and he learns to live He stakes all his silver On a promise to be free Mermaids

CHINESE CAFE/UNCHAINED MELODY Joni Mitchell

Caught in the middle Carol, we're middle class We're middle aged We were wild in the old days Birth of rock 'n roll days Now your kids are coming up straight And my child's a stranger I bore her