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Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto. In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs ("Urge for Going," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides, Now," "The Circle Game") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" helped define an era and a generation. Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one o… more »

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If you hear a politician
Or a singer making song
Do you just refuse to listen
Knowing that he must be wrong

That's the way it is, you know
You just see what you want to see
Who am I to tell you how to think?
Or tell you who to be?

I will show you what I know
Sometimes we will disagree
If we learn at all to grow
Then I have done my small duty

That's the way it is, you know
You just see what you want to see
Who am I to tell you how to think?
Or tell you who to be?

I could bring my favorite flower
Maybe yours would be the same
Maybe we would argue hours
Over the fair flower's name

That's the way it is, you know
You just see what you want to see
Who am I to tell you how to think?
Or tell you who to be?

If I brought my good friends home
And set a welcome table place
Could you see them past their clothing
Or past the color of their face

That's the way it is, you know
You just see what you want to see
Who am I to tell you how to think?
Or tell you who to be?

That's the way it is, you know
You just see what you want to see
Who am I to tell you how to think?

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