Joni Mitchell - Woodstock (Live In-Studio 1970)
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- written & produced by Joni Mitchell | from the album Ladies Of The Canyon (1970) | live in-studio from London (1970) | additional audio/video post-production by sonicboy19 | lyrics:
I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, "where are you going?"
And this he told me:
"I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm
I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band
I'm going to camp out on the land
I'm going to try an' get my soul free."
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get 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
I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning."
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden
© 1969 Crazy Crow Music (Renewed)
i wrote a little song for my friends to sing. understatement of the century.
Umm. Not that great really. She wrote a few good songs. Never considered this to be a masterpiece. But she got rich and famous. Then in old age claimed her kid.
Sour grapes! You lost your heart.
Hello @jjsands2317
One of the Best.
Joni & Woodstock.
For the people who weren't there, you didn't
I agree 100%
@@faithfulgrl2:21
I cried listening to this. I’m 70 now in 2021. The days of this music are gone. The sadness is immense.
i did too....i'm 67.
The days of this music are not gone, they are just a little more intangible than they already were at the time. Which makes them timeless, which makes them real.
People born after these years, like me, feel the magic, but we cant even hang a memory on it.
Just pass it around and bring it back! Good for these times!
@user-dp4co5qh2z create the memories you do have. And the music will fall into place..
Astonishing that this footage exists - and that we have the privilege to watch it, and be moved to tears by this celestial but also very earthly being. God bless you Joni Mitchell.
I agree it is so great that they have that footage and the sound quality is wonderfull yes I had huge bell bottoms and a six inch wide belt paisley shirts peace sign patch sewn on a denom jacket
Can't say it any better than that, a privilege indeed.
Mia Dia!
Joni is astonishing in the way she sings this song. I can't describe it.
Essence of holy folk, no need to add any negativity ❤
As I write this in March 2024, it seems beyond doubt that Joni Mitchell was divinely inspired to write this song. The lyrics are profoundly inspiring and, although fifty years old, are tailor-made for the current world situation.
May the spirit of Woodstock infuse and inspire the People to throw off the devil's bargain and reenter the garden.
That was an eloquent comment. Thank you
Couldnt agree more. I recently came to the exact same conclusion that god had to have been working through her and to prove it he gave her , her fair share of suffering and out of that came Blue.
Things are changing in favour of us, The People. Stay strong - we enter the age of Aquarius in November this year when Pluto moves into Aquarius for 20 years.
Bless you Judith love ya!
IDK if I would say Divine.. mostly since nothing but debauchery went on during those festivals..
Joni didn't really miss Woodstock, Woodstock was missing Joni.
Man what a beautiful voice !
Well stated.
Well said!
Young Joni such talent and just think the best was yet to come!
...a "nice festival"....
Spot on
You know if Joni had gone to Woodstock, this song may have been very different or not at all. Sometime fate delivers us a gift. She wrote this gift to all of us who could not have the opportunity to attend and for those lucky enough to have been a part of that momentous event, it surely brings those days back to you.
It saddens me that today's generation has no one even within shouting distance of Joni Mitchell. They can be tall, blonde, attractive with 12 Grammys and not even come close to this one performance.
A.M.E.N.
I'm from Ukraine and this song gives me chills. Once I heard it in "Six feet under"
You mean taylor swift? She never ever reach this level..
This is a gift from the God
The taylor swift shade...
Except for Amy Winehouse...
America needs Joni and Woodstock today more than ever
As a Canadian, I'd like to keep her here please lol.
Needs Jesus
Sadly you can't create something again out off context. BUT Iam pretty sure society will develop in a direction where a need for this kind of humanity and freedom arises again, and it will happen. Maybe not that far from now. Everything seems to get more grim but it will swing around. Like it always did
You guys need Donald Trump more than ever.
@@xboxgamer7453 Like a hole in the head.
She's got to be one of the greatest singer songwriters of our time. Just beautiful.
Of the century and for many more to come ❤
Yes
Absolutely
She is....
Ever!
She doesn't just sing; She channels something from another place. Just mesmerizing and even healing.
strongly agree. peace.
you said it !!!! she is other worldly and so is this miracle song.
Jazz
1:36 A Company, always on the run !!!!
Yes!!! First time I heard her voice it resonated before I knew what the word resonated meant even. Your comment also joins in together with how it feels ❤
Exquisite. Played in some minor key that captures the mood perfectly. Along with perfect singing. What a genius artist she is.
A dream we had that died in its and our youth. We were warned, I guess.
@@JT-rc7vx. Don't give up my friend. There's still hope - it's just that *you* might have to lead the revolution.
That's E Minor, ideal for her voice
She’s is a special gift to our world? She is stardust and golden!
A.M.E.N.!!!
I loved her sweet voice.
One of a kind
This song is both a poem and a prayer. Thank you Joni Mitchell you have touched the hearts of the multitude in a beautiful and everlasting way.
Her music is great for current times! There is a lot of message here...good for the younger folks to learn her music in these times! Lot's of her music includes a statement of where we are and makes you think about where we need to be!
@@frewofstew6304 I noticed all of our comments here reflect on her power that comes through her sound to the plain of divinity. It must be the closest a human can get to something immortal. Love it !!
@@stuartlimbrick4187 Nice response! Explains it pretty well!
Sacred Music...HOLY HOLY HOLY...🐝🌹🌈💫
I can't recall any lyrics justifying any religion. This song calls for peace, which we all know will not happen in our lifetimes.
Read Deuteronomy 21:18-21 is this your peaceful loving God? Would you stone any child to death if that child behaved badly repeatedly?
Joni's ear is so very different.
She hears and sings differently.
She really is amazing.
Thank you so much Joni.
Joni's music is different because it's folk with jazz elements sometimes more sometimes less.
Here in March 2024...honoring a genius artist in our own time, when we're alive. We're blessed
I met Joni in 1976 in a natural foods store in Boulder Colorado.. She walked right up to me in the store and said: "You look like someone I know." She was so beautiful and flirtatious that I just got tongue-tied and paralyzed. I couldn't even talk to her like a normal person. I was geeked-out. She was heartbreakingly beautiful like a dream come true. I couldn't even say much to her and she ended up walking away. Later on, I learned from a Boulder friend of the musician Robben Ford (who was studying at the Naropa Institute and she was in town then visiting him) that she was traveling around by herself getting inspiraton for the Hejira album
Thank you for sharing. At 53 I know very little about her but what a beautiful song.
I used to have the Hejira, I think it's a street in Culver City, California.
DAYUM!!!!!!!
If you haven't see Rick Beato's Dinner With Joni. What I'd give just to have been able to observe that meeting between one of the greatest artists and most intense celeb crush of my life, something I know I probably share with millions, and the guy whose chronicling of music I cherish. But as he does so well, Rick shares his joy with us.
@@SamasiamRick is a gem.
The song still gives me chills. My first year of college. Bell bottom blue jeans, long hair, and protests against the war. We never found our way to the garden.
Your last sentence reminds me of the Hunter S Thompson wave quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Don’t cut yourself and your generation short, I think you guys did make it to the garden.
...and we've neve been so lost
@@zachdrejza8515 Exactly. Gardens don't just happen. We make them.
NO WE DIDNT , BUDDY !!!!!!
BUT I ASSURE YOU WE WILL GET THERE ......
NOT BY OUR OWN EFFORTS !!!
Are not the same said peace-loving people with their guitars and pianos
that played in the keys of protest, playing
And beating on the drums of war now?
She didn't get to go, and she writes the most iconic song of that festival happening. Thank you so much Joni! LOVE THAT SONG
So right!
So true, but a ticket to Joni and Jimi on the same gig would have been magic :)
Joni is the energy that created Woodstock. A being of light, fully awake.
Oh my God I am just finding up about this Legend today. On my home from work leaving Bensalem Pennsylvania headed back to Philadelphia Pennsylvania and listening to one of my favorite Classic Rock Radio stations. The guy or I'm sorry rather the DJ mentioned one of his most influential female stars and then he played help me by this great woman and I swear, I was blown away. I am a super fan of this woman now
She is great isn't she.
She had a stroke recently. Watching her sing this live, when she was so young, is an excellent reminder that none of us stay young forever. Be kind toward seniors. You will be one sometime.
If we’re lucky
@@coolbuzztastywaves4720 Sounds like the privileged old folk again, getting old is a luxury these days.
But ppl are not nice to seniors
Age is a gift denied to some.
Sad to think of her having a stroke and maybe not being able to play the piano. When you're young you can't picture yourself old, so you think somehow you will be the first to not age. Maybe making fun of old people helps them feel invincible.
"We've got to get ourselves back to the garden." As true in 2020 as ever.
Some people are paying attention.
They are planning to turn it into a parking lot. Not with me 😘☝️
It is there to find. I found Avalon. 🌾🌼
Amen
@@cynthiasarah4286
Amen Ra.
I discovered that Joni is my 5th cousin. I discovered that in about 2011 after discovering that David Crosby is a 5th cousin.
Not that you or anyone could care, but caring has been a strong quality in our extended family.
My neice and Joni have similar physical features as well.
The Garden is a concept I wrote about on a creative messageboard back in 2003 to 2011. Since those days the world is less accepting of creative thoughts and civil conversation. 🐡🌾♥️
Excuse my french ,but, HOLY SHIT! I've heard this song a million times on my local radio stations by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and never knew she had written it! But what a beautiful, much more pure, deep version I am now hearing of this song done by such a talented, gifted woman!! Joni Mitchell is so under rated and should be blasted over every radio station playing that generation's music, just as loud and often as every other famous performer or band at that time! What range, and clear as a bell in any octave as she sings! And her talent as a song writer as she plays guitar or piano! And the piano backing her voice to this song is legendary and wonderful! Here is how you can grade the talent of this woman,,, her songs only need ONE instrument to accompany her songs, and they are immeasurable! I gotta tell ya,, what a talent she was!!!!! All these years later and her songs still bring tears to my eyes to listen to!
She also wrote "This flight tonight" , most widely known by the Nazareth version.
@@trog.lodyte On the album Blue!
Big yellow Taxi
@@simplesimon5739 good for the times!
❤
There is Magic in the air and music in the heart. And the notes are born from Joni Mitchell. She sings like a river that we can sail away on... thank you Joni for all that you have given us all these years eternally grateful
A gift from the divine! A little girl from Saskatchewan with voice of an angel, the poetic mind of Robert Frost and the musicianship of Chopin. No way to describe her but genius.
Beautifully and accurately stated. No auto tune would ever be allowed or needed for her.
@Dana Of course there's another way to describe her, a better way I'd say. And you've already said it from the first: "a gift from the divine."
@@paulb2092 I refer to her musicianship not to her technical ability on the piano. Her range of music went from straight forward classic folk music into very sophisticated jazz. Chopin pretty much stayed in classical piano.
She was from Fort MacLeod Alberta and splits her time between Los Angeles and British Columbia , while she did spend some time living in Saskatchewan
The musicianship of Charles Mingus, who was a close friend.
That's how you write a song if you are a very rare genius - and how you sing it if you are an ancient golden angel with a very special message.
love what you said Rick
Definitely an ancient golden Angel with a very special and important message !
Perfectly said. No one like her in pop music history.
It probably is the right way to write a song but Joni Mitchell is no ordinary artist. When I heard this song first it stopped me in my tracks I was used to the CSNY version and I adored the song. Tears came to me as the song moved me so much with Joni singing this. The lyrics are so good …
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden …
Fantastic message and of course there’s more messages in the song … brilliant by JM.
Actually love both versions equally … Joni is in tune with the earth around us.
Joni is surely a billion year old piece of carbon...we are all stardust..she is golden!
I love this song - the melody , and especially the word - they have such meaning ! Joni Mitchell’s is one of a kind ! Fit right in during the hippie era - I love it . Bless you Joni Girl !
,
Her voice range is insane, you wouldn't believe that a soft spoken person like her would have the most powerful voice.
In my opinion one of the greatest songwriters/ Artists of the 20th century
Your not alone in that opinion.
for sure
I and David Crosby agree with you and he should know. He hung out with her.
@@H1delta Well, you and David have excellent taste🎶💖 David loved her. He loved her music and everything that made Joni who she was. 1967 they dated. He produced her 1st album. She was a Goddess.
A lady of the Canyon.
correct! x
I feel as if my heart is going to burst listening to her sing. What a voice, what a privilege to have been a part of that generation ❤️
amen
And blessed to not be a part...
@@justjeph6927 You wouldn’t understand…
Amen Mama
@@justjeph6927 You missed it. Too bad.
Thank goodness the audience was so respectful. No whooping, no hollaring, no coughing just pure adoration of this incredibly beautiful woman, singing her poignantly wonderful song.
Even though she wasn't personally at the legendary festival, her song became the anthem of Woodstock. Whenever I hear this song, it touches me, simultaneously reminding me of Woodstock. I was a teenager myself when I first saw and heard her. A simple blonde girl with a guitar in hand and a divine voice with profound lyrics. I was immediately in love. Not just with her voice. - She is and remains an extraordinary artist under the musical sky.
This still gives me chills and tears 50 years later.
Me too, but I’m 25 and I’ve only known the song for a few years lol!
Yes! All her songs still have that effect on me!
Me too and I was there...
Me too. My comment is above.
@@MetalliBucket Welcome! It's never too late to discover great music. I still do
How does a 20 year old have the depth to write such powerful words? Pure brilliance, maybe a gift from God? She stands with Dylan as one of the greatest lyricists.
agree, such imagery - Blue
She was 27, but still yes, brilliant.
Dylan is way over rated- check out Robbie Basho, and yes, Joni was great! But then Rimbaud wrote his poetry at 18 and 19 and Alexander the great conquered the Greek known world at 19, Galois died at 19 after a duel- the night before he wrote the basis of modern group theory.
i agree brilliant blue at 21 what a voice and talent
I so agree. How could such a young person know so much about life. Makes n=me believe that she was an old soul whoi was reincarnated. Such wisdom about life.
77 now and this takes me from Durban, Natal, South Africa to the world , in 1969 back to a time when we thought the world had a happy chance to be a better place for humanity, all and every one of us, now we know the ffers rule the sad world.
She really has the voice of a soulful siren. I like the studio version of this song but this live performance is what mesmerises me. Also she's such a great pianist that i feel people don't talk about that aspect more often.
Joni missed performing at Woodstock and yet she wrote a song that enabled everyone who missed it to experience the feeling of being there.
Amen
the CSNY version of this song was the first one I heard, at age 11. Took me awhile to warm up to the actual writer's version, but, i certainly have.
@@onetrueslave Checkout Ian Matthews Southern Comfort version.very smooth!!
And getting on Dick Cavett's show was more important. It did not seem that it was her decision and thats awful.
Same!!
You can't measure genius. It is what it is and there are no formulae to account for it. This woman is astonishing.
Lot of mundane comments on here, but yours rings true. Joni will be remembered long from now as one of the greatest of her era of music.
I cried too, didn´t know it. This is one of the wonderful messages ever, We are Star Dust, We are Golden, and we muct get ourselves Back To The Garden,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I feel so sorry for myself not knowing this level of music for thirty years
This is among the best humanity has ever acomplished.
"I wrote a little song"...wow...a "little song" that would define a whole generation and beyond!...
I actually cry when I hear her version, there is so much emotion in it, even as Crosby Stills Nash & Young did such a great rendition, she is such a contained inner explosion of talent that it all just has to be felt not just heard, salute Joni. Beautiful, enchore!
It was a little song about a little generation.
It's a humble statement, and it's true. When you're singing about stars and stardust, it puts you and your songs and achievements in perspective. We're all tiny, unimaginably tiny :-)
Beautiful ❤️
She was god-like
Je suis Français et j'adore Joni Mitctchell.
Joni, JE T'AIME
Seeing this again after her return to the stage after her aneurysm gives me the chills.
@Sigal family - ABSOLUTELY! The Newport Folk Fest appearance has had me gobsmacked for the better part of a week. I salute her genius and her resilience. And yes, this particular piece gives me the chills, too...
Be well.
I love her story on not making it to Woodstock. She should have been there 😢
What is aneurysm
@@elvissadsongspresley5913 It was a '60's movement that opposed ignorance and general bad manners. It is also called a stroke if you were serious in your question.
You are not the only one......
How amazing... Left out...and She produced this... One of the greatest song's in history... What a woman.
If this song and performance was somehow the only Joni ever made, it alone would stand as testament to her being the greatest singer-songwriter of her generation, and maybe of all time.
What a hauntingly beautiful, powerful, magical piece of music....and sung from the depth of her soul. Truly, back to the garden, to a simpler way of life, will give us all peace.
Hi how are you doing?
She seems like such a gentle soul we need more people like that in this world
Joni is a musical genius, poetess, and her voice, guitar, piano playing is unmatched. Her unique phrasing, rhythms, changes in volume, pitch, her control; no one can match her, she is unique. She was also a great record producer.
Love her music.
musical genius... yes...
yeah
So well said. Just unreal.
She intimidated CSN with her raw talent and especially her song-writing ability and open tunings. Underrated...yes.
Amazing voice. Her ability to drop from soprano to alto in mid-lyric gives me chills.
It's amazing the way she does those vocal transitions while making it sound effortless. She has wonderful range.
A.M.E.N.!!!
A pure musical genus! Joni Michell
This is so beautiful and all my hippie years passed with my friends from then where many are no longer with us .... But what a time, what a gift, what we were allowed to experience .... That changed me for always and became a memorable memory in my life....thank you beautiful wunderful Joni, I love you ❤️🙏🏻
Joni at the top of her game. Hauntingly ethereal; beautiful rendition. A remarkable and astounding creation with transcendent vocals!
And taking part in cancel culture in 2022? She's acting like a 8yo tik toker
maybe Taylor Swift will do a version of this some day
Although Ms. Swift is at the top of current singer/songwriters; Joni is the queen and gold standard. Take care & Peace!
@@michaelulbricht9438 I was joking.
I was hoping you were being "satirical," but just in case I was trying to be "diplomatic." ✌
One of the greatest and most meaningful songs ever written.
Yes it is
Such exquisite artistry from this marvellous lady.
OMG, that voice. I’ve been a fan forever, but her voice never fails to amaze me.
I love that's she's so confident in her voice, absolutely LOVE IT, she uses her entire range
YES , WHEN SHE IS TALKING , SHE IS JUST TALKING , LIKE A YOUNG GIRL , LIKE A CHILD REALLY : BUT WHEN SHE SINGS , JESUS : WHAT JUST HAPPENED ?????????
This is what pure musical genius looks like. She wasn't even there yet she created a song that defined a generation.
As she has said herself, it's because she wasn't there that she was able to write it. She saw the event on TV and felt the ideal in a way that would have been impossible mixing with the grimy movers and shakers backstage. She missed the spectacle, and the associated fame it would have given her, but she gifted us all this masterpiece of spiritual hope.
Well said
@@peteb1206 her friends sang it during the festival, and their version became a legend. She wrote it before
@@talzohar6966 not according to Mitchell herself, or any other sources. She first performed it at the Big Sur Festival about a month after Woodstock and it was released in early 1970 as the b-side of Big Yellow Taxi. Crosby Stills and Nash did not perform "Woodstock" at Woodstock, they recorded their cover of it afterwards.
Joni's beautiful voice and brilllant lyrics have a cosmic shine like no other.
Rural Canada produced this. Amazing. She sounds like an ancient flute calling us to go within.
I was 23 in 69 and still love this music……music is the “one” thing that brings us together in love and happiness…
Just hauntingly beautiful, like nothing else, touching deep inside.
Joni performed this song a few months before I was born. What a magical performance.
This song always makes me want to relive this great rock and roll festival!
Perfection. To have a voice like that, and a mind like that. She sings in paintings, she paints her songs.
So incredibly well said! Thank you!
and a spirit like that.
well, she did once describe herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance"
Joni is in a class by herself. No one can come close to this woman's talent. I don't know that I would have enjoyed my life as much without her songs that always touch my spirit.
True. She makes it look easy too.
Joni was at the center of all the music I loved through this era...the hurricane of music by Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Cream, and many others. Her voice, and the lyrics, are almost spiritual to me.
History won't understand its impact for years still.
Fun fact, Jimi Hendrix was a fan, and actually personally recorded an early performance of hers.
The most beautiful song I have ever heard, only just discovered Joni Mitchel!! her voice is a finely tuned instrument like the piano she plays without fault.
Purest of Talent!
I always thought this was originally from Crosby stills Nash and young-I absolutely love their version. But having learned this is Joni Mitchell, I really need to give her more of a listen!!
@@rachelrohde7549 definitely do! She's got enough mind-blowing work to keep you exploring for a lifetime...her album 'Blue' is possibly her most iconic...I'd personally recommend this one although it's not from Blue... ua-cam.com/video/akspDRo49lM/v-deo.html
Please let me know what you think ☺️
First time I've seen this 🖤🖤🖤 Joni is my cousin. She looks sooo much like my grandma in this performance!! Grandma and uncle Bill who was Joni's dad were 2 of 11 children!!
Do you keep In contact with her? I know she's not doing to well health wise
@@pressureflipin1992 I don't but my Mom and my aunt's do and yeah she isn't in the best of health
Been thinking about your cousin a lot lately.... We met a long time ago... Please if you can send her lots of love and let her know she is thought of so much by so many of us. I have been saying lately how I am looking forward to sitting somewhere wonderful and reminiscing together in heaven.... Please if you can pass this on to your beautiful cousin... Thank you 🎶🦋
that is so cool (great memories)
You come from good genes Trevor.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon.
^ fucking genius
"and we got to get ourselves back to the garden"
No need for name calling. You point is better made without it. :-)
Never knew she sings that, thanks!
@ 4:40
why so aggressive? why do you call someone you don't know a fucking idiot?
The voice of an angel. The heart of a true poet. One of a kind. Joni, we love you forever and always.
I cry every time when I watch this performance. It's the only concert I wished to attend. I was 7. This song puts the show into perspective. I love Joni!
Stunned by the beauty of this musician’s incredible voice
Awful old woman
@@joeyu5865 really? She became a bch?
@@joeyu5865 Hey and look at what happened to that sap Dylan? Born again christian for fuck's sake. If you live long enough you grow feet of clay.
@@joeyu5865 ??? Joni contracted a disease - one that is red listed by the CDC. The label morgellons had 5 definitions- Delusional parasitosis is the tag that mainstream chooses. Very wrong. Very sad. The psych medication they offer generally causes weight increase and does zilch to combat the parasitic/fungal pathogens.
I was surprised to hear of her very ego driven comments at times..about other musicians, etc..
incredible voice of an angel..every time i listen i start crying for no reason....best song writer in the last generation
thank god for Joni Mtchell
Yes, this song does that to you. "A little song."
Mia it has always had the same effect on me as well.
Mia, you have great compassion. I am almost 78 years old and I also cry for no reason.
There's a reason. One of the most beautiful songs ever written/performed in my opinion.
i love it so much. the high pitch, the fact she wrote it, alluding to our cosmic origins. it's super powerful.
A beautiful bird . A fresh breeze . A special way of caring for people to enjoy music and she enjoyed it as well .
I love you Joni .
I met her when she was a still younger wench serving coffee in a Toronto Yorkville coffee house. It was mid or later several afternoons. I was on my way home from a day at university. She would pour and serve our coffees (our because sometimes I had a friend with me, hoping to turn my friend onto her). When nothing else was happening beyond her 10 cent tip, she'd go to a small stage in the background and start playing a guitar. I wasn't, and I'm not even now, someone who can tell good music from bad. But somehow I knew that what I was hearing from that stage was unprecedented.
Comments like yours is one of the main reasons I often more interested in reading comments than reading or listening the article or a video. These little pieces of reality and history give such a feel for what and how she is. Thank for posting this gem.
Ha, ha. Please eloborate! I guess you mean #1. You're off the hook.
I came here after Googling the song. No idea she wrote it. Big Yellow Taxi was side B!
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1. ARCHAIC•HUMOROUS
a girl or young woman.
"in the new film about Columbus, she plays the token buxom wench"
2. ARCHAIC
a prostitute.
verb
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(of a man) consort with prostitutes.
Brilliant, thanks
Great snippet Frank, thanks for sharing 🇮🇪🇮🇪🍺🍺🍀🍀
Someone "liked" my reply! 🥰
While the Vietnam war was raging and guys were being killed for no reason , the song reflected the mood and thinking of many disillusioned people. Haunting and ethereal.
Fast forward 50 years and who would have guessed the insurmountable challenge faced by musicians to find par with this magnificence.
not only a song, a hymn for a new mankind
I’m certain Joni wasn’t thinking about her image, or album sales, or fame when she wrote this. She was a vessel through which this was channeled; no producer was saying “write a hit about that festival thing the kids would buy”.
Money corrupts art- Joni kept it pure.
Absolutely right. Read the book Restless Daughter and you'll see the juggling act she managed in LA. Wow. We may never see an artist again so honest, humble and so hugely gifted. Many people can play, and write good songs, but her poetry and original piano and guitar playing is peerless. Every album shows her changes, and it just seems to keep improving. Her goal was to play what she felt inside for us, her audience--- no other reason.
@@johnnieguitar5724 : Did you mean "Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell" by David Yaffe? Found this on Amazon. If so, thanks!
curious nomad, Joni herself says in her song "River" she's going to "make a lot of money and quit this crazy scene." So money does count; do you think it corrupted her? I doubt it, but just wondering based on your post.
@@CatherineSTodd Its a pulling idea every musicians have....many musicians didn't make ends meet
But she says....she could not attend Woodstock because of a television engagement....its nice to think of our idols of being pure....but Joni Mitchell was hard driven women in the music industry to advance her career! great artist, but also a person seeking fame and fortune.
This woman wasn't there but captured it perfectly in this song I know I was there
This woman is a soulful genius Bless her This song will live on representing this festival forever
Joni, you are a musical genious , a well loved poet. Much love to you.
Her music touches the soul.
That was such a classic.The bombers turned to butterflies got to me.
LOVE LOVE LOVE !!!! I'm 67 and I still feel this song deep in my bones! The whole scene was beautiful.Where did this vibe go? I hope there are still people that feel that groove out there.PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL OF MY KINDRED SPIRITS !!!!!
56 and I'm feeling it all way in nigeria. The sheer musicality and magical timbre to her voice is breathtaking and priceless. God bless Joni for sharing
No problem, hard to not feel this treu and treu. that highs..... they dont exist anymore. btw 31 summers Old.
That unabashed soul in the mysic, too.
makes me cry
It still lives in some of us, Stephen. I'm 67, too, and as today is the anniversary of Woodstock, just happened to come across this. Geez, the memories are pouring through me. Keep up the love and peace. We're gonna get it back, I tell ya!
She is extraterrestrial. We are so lucky to have known this beauty and talent in our lives.
How someone can have such a diversity of supreme taste and talents, piano, vocal, literary, visual arts, all justifying the term genius, plus personal beauty, is impossible and will never be equaled.
We’re so lucky to have UA-cam to remind us.
Amazing. "We are stardust...billion year old carbon, caught in the devil's bargain.... and we got to get ourselves back to the garden" More true now than ever. Where did her wisdom come from!?
I have often wondered the same thing. How could she be so young and yet so prescient and wise. Makes me believe in reincarnation.She was born with an old soul.
I wondered the same thing...
I think she is a Bard, inspired by God...
She is other worldy.
So gifted! So wise! So loving!
MAKE ME CRY , JONI .....AGAIN !!!!!!
BETWEEN YOUR VOICE AND PIANO , YOU ARE VAN GOGH , WITH A BRUSH !!!!!!!
No wonder Nash's heart was broken. Wow. What a gig. What a gal.
Only one Joni and will never be another like her!!! Such clarity in her voice! She is the Ella of our generation. I was born in 1956 and realize I grew up listening to the best rock music ever 1963-1974
All best people born in 56
@@garypeatling7927 I will take that as a complement. thank you
Absolutely right bro´
We had the best of it . 56 - birth of rock and roll and us .
@@garypeatling7927 1955 was a good year too.
“So I wrote a little song.”
Such a beautiful humble lady
Well, that's how it is for a genius in their field. To her it was a little song. And we are left to listen in awe.
@@PhillipLandmeier Yep. There's a video where an interviewer asks Bernie Taupin if he remembers exactly when he was when he wrote Your Song. He said he didn't, but he did remember he was eating breakfast at the time.
YES FUNNY.A LITTLE SONG WITH SUCH A BIG MESSAGE...50 YEARS LATER.BACK TO THE GARDEN.✨🌾
susansname A Magnificent Song She Wrote ! Brilliant ❤️👍🏼✨
Some people are just wired very differently. What a talent!
a seminal poem of the 20th century. resonates today. she is...a genius.
She is simply the most beautiful human being, a one off, a prophet, a poet, a goddess, I'm moved the first moment a word leaves her lips! The power of woman
........ditto!
I agree ! She is a goddess!
It's damn near hypnotizing
just another human as exhibited by her 5 decade addiction to of all things. . .tobacco
@@texthedog Well, I don't want to put words in Mark's mouth, but I don't think he meant to imply she was literally some sort of divine entity beyond the petty desires and vices of mere mortals. In the realms of singing, writing, and performing music, however, she's well above the norm. No one's perfect and many individuals' relationships with substance use devolve into dependence disorders--including Joni, and many other musicians of her generation (some of which, as I'm sure you know, would ultimately prove fatal)--but I'm willing to bet you know that's not _really_ what was being discussed when others alluded to her being a "goddess," a poet, powerful, etc.
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WOW
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Blown away.
We Will Always Love You Joni
Thank You For Your Music and Your Heart
So many singers. So few Joni Mitrchells.
jimashtube there’s only one Joni Mitchell
Thank God! Three of them would have made me doubt the theory of evolution.
She is not a singer...... she is a genius writer and performer that brings life to words, that can bring the human experience to a picture we can all see and appreciate.
The only writers I can put in her class are Jackson Browne and John Prine. They can all write songs that can bring tears to my eyes and some understanding to my heart. I'm 66 now and been a Joni fan since high school years. What a talent.
Tom Matthews you said it .... there’s just one, I’m grateful that I have lived in her time.
@@wtmuller1 it always amazes me when no one understands my comments.