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Here is my cover of Little Green by Joni Mitchell. It is the third track on her 1971 album 'Blue'.
(I got this from Wikipedia) Mitchell wrote Little Green in 1967 about the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was a poor folk singer in Toronto. The existence of her daughter, originally called Kelly Dale, was not publicly known until 1993, when a room-mate from Mitchell's art-school days in the 1960s sold the story of the adoption to a tabloid magazine. Mitchell was reunited with her daughter, Kilauren Gibb, in 1997.
Thank you to the contributors of Joni tabs/tunings on www.jonimitchell.com. I never would have learnt this without those! Any fans of Joni - I'll be adding more soon. I want to learn the entire Clouds album. Challenge... :0
lyrics:
Born with the moon in Cancer
Choose her a name she'll answer too
Call her green and the winters can not fade her
Call her green for the children who have made her
Little, green, be a gypsy dancer
He went to California
Hearing that everything's warmer there
So you write him a letter, say, "her eyes are blue"
He sends you a poem and she's lost to you
Little, green, he's a non-comformer
Just a little green
Like the colour when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the night's when the northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow
Child with a child pretending
Weary of lies you're sending home
So you sign all the papers in the family name
You're sad and you're sorry but you're not ashamed
Little green, have a happy ending
Just a little green
Like the colour when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the night's when the northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow.
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Note: I do not own any rights to this music, I'm just singing and playing it.