London Bridge is falling down Say the people in my town They're the ones who bring it down (It's true they've been for centuries, walking by it and saying, you ...

Joni's lighthearted take on "London Bridge" was a crowd pleaser in her mid-sixties club show, before she signed her first recording contract This transcription ...

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 thin...

For our first time together I wanted everything to be just right I prayed for good weather For we were going to a concert in the park that night I wanted violin...

The firmament of Tinsel Town Is strung with tungsten stars Lot's of forty watt successes He says where's my own shining hour He's the well kept secret of the un...

He said "You think you're a lady But I know you're a woman We are as young as the night" I said "No telephones ringing No company coming Just the lap of the lak...

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 ba...

Do u beleive in magic? in a young girl's heart? how the music can free her, whenever it starts, and itz magic! If the music is groovy, and makes u feel happy li...

Since I lost you I can?t get through the day Without at least one big boo-hoo The pain won?t go away What am I gonna do? Man from mars This time you went too fa...

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 kee...

Marcie in a coat of flowers Steps inside a candy store Reds are sweet and greens are sour Still no letter at her door So she'll wash her flower curtains Hang th...

Michael wakes you up with sweets He takes you up streets and the rain comes down Sidewalk markets locked up tight And umbrellas bright on a grey background Ther...

I was in an all night movie When I heard the usher say Here comes the midnight cowboy Got his gun hired out for pay; You were walking kind of faded From the Net...

Midsummer rain, you and I together I'm only dreaming again and I will forever it seems Midsummer dawn, kisses in a doorway I can't believe they are gone so I li...

It takes cheerful resignation Heart and humility That's all it takes A cheerful person told me Nobody's harder on me than me How could they be And, nobody's har...

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...

So here's to you May your dreams come true May old father time Never be unkind And through the years Save your smiles and your tears They're just souvenirs They...

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 ...

I'm going to take you to My special place It's a place that you Like no one else I know Might appreciate I don't go there with anyone--but You're a special case...

I hired a coach to take me from confusion to the plane And though we shared a common space I know I?ll never meet again The driver with his eyebrows furrowed in...

Light up light up Light up your lazy blue eyes Moon?s up nights up Taking the town by surprise Night time night time Day left an hour ago City light time Must y...

The tour bus came yesterday The driver's a mess today It's a dump of a destiny But it's got a view Now the kid in the see-through blouse Is moving in hard on hi...

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 trac...

The general offered No apologies He said "the soldiers erred in judgement They should have hired a hooker" No apologies To the outraged japanese No "sorry littl...

The story hit the news From coast to coast They said you beat the girl You loved the most Your charitable acts Seemed out of place With the beauty With your fis...

Must I forgive you Each time And say you don't know what your're doing There are no victimless crimes I know of Out here in these graffiti ruins My love Oh I a...

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!...

Listen children to a story that was written long ago 'bout a kindom on a mountain and the valley folk below on the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneath a...

Listen children to a story That was written long ago 'Bout a kingdom on a mountain And the valley folk below On the mountain was a treasure Buried deep beneath...

[Instrumental] I stepped outside of my little house and stood barefoot on a rock The pacific ocean rolled towards me Across the bay, a family of seals sprawled ...

Marlena under Foster Grants She's undercover from the dawns advance That girl is travel-drained And the neon mercury vapor stained Miami sky It's red as meat It...

A red sun came rolling down a grey sky And the frogs and dogs and night birds then Started up singing sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights- S...

A red sun came rolling down a grey sky And the frogs and dogs and night birds then Started up singing sweet country lullaby You see that patch of city lights- S...

It fell from midnight skies It drummed on the galvanized In the washroom, women tracked the rain Up to the make-up mirror Liquid soap and grass And Jungle Garde...

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! ...

Magdalene is trembling Like a washing on a line Trembling and gleaming Never before was a man so kind Never so redeeming Enter the multitudes In Exxon blue In ...

All the people at this party They've got a lot of style They've got stamps of many countries They've got passport smiles Some are friendly Some are cutting Some...

It was a rainy night We took a taxi to your mother?s home She went to florida and left you With your father?s gun, alone Upon her small white bed I fell into a ...

He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel He was drinking for diversion He was thinking for himself A little money riding on the Maple Leafs Along comes ...

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 Cadil...

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 cadi...

I slept last night in a good hotel I went shopping today for jewels The wind rushed around in the dirty town And the children let out from the schools I was sta...

I slept last night in a good hotel I went shopping today for jewels The wind rushed around in the dirty town And the children let out from the schools I was sta...

I met a friend of spirit He drank and womanized And I sat before his sanity I was holding back from crying He saw my complications And he mirrored me back simpl...

It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on...

I think of tears, I think of rain on shingles I think of rain, I think of roses blue I think of Rose, my heart begins to tremble To see the place she's lately g...

Again & again the same situation For so many years Tethered to a ringing telephone In a room full of mirrors A pretty girl in your bathroom Checking out her sex...

Where are you now Are you in some hotel room Does it have a view? Are you caught in a crowd Or holding some honey Who came on to you? Why do you have to be so j...

© 1994 Crazy Crow Music BMI I pulled up behind a Cadillac; We were waiting for the light; And I took a look at his license plate- It said, "Just Ice" Is justice...

Out of the fire like catholic saints Comes scarlett and her deep complaint Mimicking tenderness she sees In sentimental movies A celluloid rider comes to town C...

Every picture has its shadows And it has some source of light Blindness, blindness and sight The perils of benefactors The blessings of parasites Blindness, bli...

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 net...

Shiny toys--right on time Shiny toys--right on time Shiny toys I'm reading people rags in the checkout lane Look, here's a hunk--here's a honey Celebrated peopl...

(Based on a poem by WB Yeats) Turning and turning Within the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The center cannot hold And a b...

He In a shopping mall Finally met the perfect girl She is all that matters The only one in all the world Like a Barbie doll Oh love is snakes and ladders Snakes...

We got a break Unbelievable We got a break Right in the middle of this Hollywood heartache We got this solid love All around the town Good hearts are going unde...

Sometimes I'm happy Sometimes I'm blue My disposition depends on you I never mind the rain from the skies As long as I have the sun in your eyes Sometimes I lo...

Sometimes I'm happy Sometimes I'm blue My disposition depends on you I never mind the rain from the skies As long as I have the sun in your eyes Sometimes I lo...

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 ca...

Fly silly seabird No dreams can possess you No voices can blame you For sun on your wings My gentle relations Have names they must call me For loving the freedo...

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 A...

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 everyw...

Look at me Won't you tell me What you see behind the tinsel Flower lady that you made Me feel I must be Don't you know even tinsel flowers Grow uneasy shining ...

Strong and wrong you win-- Only because That's the way its always been Men love war! That's what history' s for History A mass--murder mystery His story Strong...

© 1994 Crazy Crow Music BMI She pulls the shade; It's just another sunny Sunday She dodges the light like Blanche DuBois Bright colors fade away on such a sunny...

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 pro...

I almost closed the door Cancelled on everything we opened up for Tonight the shadows had their say Their sad notions of the way Things really are Damn these bl...

(Joni MitchellCharles Mingus) I almost closed the door Cancelled on everything we opened up for Tonight the shadows had their say Their sad notions of the way ...

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 chatt...

I met you on a midway at a fair last year And you stood out like a ruby in a black man's ear You were playing on the horses, you were playing on the guitar stri...

You could have been more Than a name on the door On the thirty-third floor in the air More than a credit card Swimming pool in the backyard While you still have...

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 H...

Down in the cellar in the Boho zone I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well Just another hard-time band With Negro affectations I was a hopeful in ro...

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 Then the chil...

It was a dark and a stormy night Everyone was at the wing-ding They weren't the wing-ding type So they went up on the train bridge Where the weather was howling...

Peridots and periwinkle blue medallions Gilded galleons spilled across the ocean floor Treasure somewhere in the sea and he will find where Never mind their que...

I'm down to a roll of dimes I'm stalking the slot that's hot I keep hearing bells all around me Jingling in the lucky jackpots They keep you tantalized They kee...

And so once again My dear johnny my dear friend And so once again you are fightin? us all And when I ask you why You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall Oh, m...

And so once again My dear Johnny my dear friend And so once again you are fightin' us all And when I ask you why You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall Oh, m...

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 i...

I remember monday rising up to pack his lunch We kissed goodbye saying What a foolish girl was i Saying, what a fool was she Near the store where I go shopping ...

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 s...

Rousseau walks on trumpet paths Safaris to the heart of all that jazz Through I bars and girders-through wires and pipes The mathematic circuits of the modern n...

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 Y...

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel I knew I was not bound f...

I was in an all night movie When I heard the usher say Here comes the midnight cowboy Got his gun hired out for pay; You were walking kind of faded From the Net...

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 ...

PENANCE CRANE: The pirate anchored on a Wednesday And why he came to port I wonder To see a lady so my friends say She dances for the sailors In a smoky cabaret...

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 e...

Again and again the same situation For so many years Tethered to a ringing telephone In a room full ot mirrors A pretty girl in your bathroom Checking out her s...

© 1994 Crazy Crow Music BMI Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness-- Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you s...

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 t...

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 g...

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 g...

Because Elvis gave 'em cars You think I'm cheap And you're hard done by Look-you live here like a star Rent free suite Big blue pool that you sun by Trips to tr...

Of the darkness in men's minds What can you say That wasn't marked by history Or the TV news today He gets away with murder The blizzards come and go The stab a...

(Joni Mitchell) Of the darkness in men's minds What can you say That wasn't marked by history Or the TV news today He gets away with murder The blizzards come ...

Look out the left the captain said The lights down there, that's where we'll land I saw a falling star burn up Above the Las Vegas sands It wasn't the one that ...

Sparkle on the ocean Eagle at the top of a tree Those crazy crows always making a commotion This land is home to me I was talking to my neighbor He said, "When...