CHELSEA
MORNING
JONI
MITCHELL
SONGWRITER: JONI MITCHELL
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: CLOUDS
LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1969
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell (née Anderson;
born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter. Drawing
from folk, pop,
rock, classical, and jazz, Mitchell's songs often
reflect on social and philosophical ideals as well as her feelings about
romance, womanhood, disillusionment and joy. She has received many accolades,
including nine Grammy Awards and induction into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 1997. Rolling Stone called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic has stated,
"When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and
influential female recording artist of the late 20th century".
Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, and throughout western Canada,
before moving on to the nightclubs of Toronto,
Ontario. She moved to the United States
and began touring in 1965. Some of her original songs
("Urge for Going", "Chelsea Morning",
"Both Sides, Now",
"The Circle
Game") were covered by Other folk singers,
allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her debut album, Song to a Seagull, in
1968. Settling in Southern
California, Mitchell helped define an era
and a generation with popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi"
and "Woodstock".
Her 1971 album Blue is often cited as one of the best albums of all time; it was rated
the 30th best album ever made in Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time",
rising to number 3 in the 2020 edition. In 2000, The New York Times chose Blue as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning
points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music". In 2017, NPR ranked Blue number 1 on a list of Greatest Albums Made By Women. Mitchell's
fifth album, For the Roses, was
released in 1972. She then switched labels and began exploring more jazz-influenced melodic ideas,
by way of lush pop textures, on 1974's Court and Spark,
which featured the radio hits "Help Me"
and "Free Man in Paris" and
became her best-selling album.
"Chelsea Morning" is a song written
and composed by Joni Mitchell and recorded for the singer's second album, Clouds,
which she released in 1969.
Woke up, it was a
Chelsea morning
And the first thing that I heard
Was a song outside my window
And the traffic wrote the words
It came ringin' up like Christmas bells
And rappin' up like pipes and drums
Oh, won't you stay?
We'll put on the day
And we'll wear it till the night comes
Woke up, it was a
Chelsea morning
And the first thing that I saw
Was the sun through yellow curtains
And a rainbow on the wall
Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you
Crimson crystal beads to beckon
Oh, won't you stay?
We'll put on the day
There's a sun show every second
Now the curtain opens
on a portrait of today
And the streets are paved with passersby
And pigeons fly and papers lie, waiting to blow away
Woke up, it was a
Chelsea morning
And the first thing that I knew
There was milk and toast and honey
And a bowl of oranges, too
And the sun poured in like butterscotch
And stuck to all my senses
Oh, won't you stay?
We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses
When the curtain
closes and the rainbow runs away
I will bring you incense owls by night
By candlelight, by jewel-light, if only you will stay
Pretty baby, won't you-
Wake up, it's a Chelsea morning.
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