There's a crow flying
Black & 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 sky
====>Black Crow from the 1976 album Hejira
A musical genius.
“people will tell you where they've gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there yourself you'll never really know.”
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"There's a man who's climbed a mountain And he's calling out her name
And he hopes her heart can hear three thousand miles He calls again
He can think her there beside him He can miss her just the same
He has missed her in the forest While he showed her all the flowers
And the branches sang the chorus As he climbed the scaley towers
Of a forest tree
While she was somewhere being free."
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"I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel
To shower off the dust
And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust."
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"He bought her a diamond for her throat
He put her in a ranch house on a hill
She could see the valley barbecues
From her window sill
See the blue pools in the squinting sun
Hear the hissing of summer lawns."
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"but i know my needs
my sweet tumbleweed
i need more quiet times
by a river flowing
you and me
deep kisses
and the sun going down."
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"i will always love you
hands alike
magnet and iron
the souls."
====>>
"Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us
Where or why she moved away
Red is angry green is jealous
That was all she had to say
Someone thought they saw her Sunday
Window shopping in the rain
Someone heard she bought a one-way ticket
And went west again."
====>> Joni Mitchell is 70 years young today.
Happy Birthday to Joni...always loved her but did not know so much about her..thank you prairiegirl xoxo
ReplyDeleteHello friend. There are so many interesting (and sometimes shocking) things about her. I almost made a list of those, but changed my mind.
DeleteTo read about them, go to Thestar, an online newspaper out of Toronto. There's an article listing "16 amazing things about her." It really is kind of shocking.
xoxo
i KNOW. i've loved joni since i first heard her in the 70s….and i used to sing her songs in college-days coffee houses. i still belt-out a joni song or two when i'm outdoors, which is where i most feel like i relate to her lyrics and melodies.
ReplyDeletethank you for reminding me, red dirt prairie girl….
LOVE
Haha! I can just imagine you singing away in the woods there!
DeleteWhat song do you like to belt out? "You turn me on, I'm a radio?" Heehee.
Tell me, do you have any of her CD's ?
See ya, Bernard
xo
Love love love Joni....listened to Hejira in high school! Thanks for this post, it brought it all back home to me.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I could take you back to good ol' high school days!
DeleteJulie, do you not listen to her still?
x
You bet I do! x
DeleteHappy birthday to Joni!! My mom loves her :)
ReplyDeleteOh, well THAT makes me feel good, Keith!
DeleteHaha. Just joking. ;)
Thanks for being here.
And ya know...if you like jazz at all, her later music, like Mingus, is awesome.
Oh I love Joni! And I can thank my dad for that...
ReplyDeleteI hope your days have been warm and wonderful!
xo
Your dad must have been a "real groovy cat" back then, in the beatnic days!
DeleteI knew you were a flower child. xx
Yet ANOTHER thing we have in common, my sweet.
ReplyDeleteOh yes! What an honor, too.
DeleteI bet you have more Joni albums (vinyl) than me. ;)
I had an apple crate full of her records and a "friend" lost them when I went to Alaska to deckhand one summer. Grrr..
xx
you two seem cut from the same beautiful cloth!
ReplyDeletesuch a beautiful birthday tribute from you. thank you for sharing. :)
♥
ReplyDeletelove and light
so special
ReplyDeletejust like you.....♥
love and light