Song Lyrics

Black Crow

by Joni Mitchell

There's a crow flying
Black and ragged
Tree to tree
He's black as the highway that's leading me
Now he's diving down
To pick up on something shiny
I feel like that black crow
Flying
In a blue sky

I took a ferry to the highway
Then I drove to a pontoon plane
I took a plane to a taxi
And a taxi to a train
I've been traveling so long
How'm I ever going to know my home
When I see it again
I'm like a black crow flying
In a blue blue sky

In search of love and music
My whole life has been
Illumination
Corruption
And diving diving diving diving
Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing
Just like that black crow flying
In a blue sky

I looked at the morning
After being up all night
I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light
I looked out the window
And I saw that ragged soul take flight
I saw a black crow flying
In a blue sky
Oh I'm like a black crow flying
In a blue sky

Transcriptions of Black Crow

Black Crow has been recorded by 81 other artists

Aafje van Summeren Trio (from "Space Unknown" - 2005)
Agnes Heginger & Georg Breinschmid (from "tanzen" - 2005)
Anna Lundqvist & Jonas André (from "Reunion" - 2020)
Big Yellow (- 2016)
Big Yellow Taxi (from "The Music of Joni Mitchell (Demo)" - 2002)
Big Yellow Taxi (from "A Tribute To Joni Mitchell" - 2002)
Black Crow (- 2010)
Blechinger, Kate (from "Under A Dancing Sky" - 2018)
Bostwick, Candice (from "Taking Flight" - 2017)
Chaudry, Aneesa (from "Covers 1" - 2014)
Conspiracy of Venus (from "Muse Ecology " - 2016)
Copeland, Shemekia (from "Never Going Back" - 2009)
David Johnson & Fake Zappa (from "In Search of Love and Music: A Tribute to Joni Mitchell" - 2019)
David Linx And The Brussels Jazz Orchestra (from "Changing Faces" - 2007)
Dinc, Ipek (- )
Duo (from "4 The Road" - 2009)
Flack. Jonathan (from "XXI" - 1999)
Front Country (from "Digital Single" - 2020)
Garrin Benfield Band (- 2005)
Giulia Galliani MAG Collective (from "Song For Joni" - 2018)
Gleason, Jim (from "Sure, I'm Blue" - 2019)
Groenenberg, Saskia (- 2007)
Grzegorz Karnas Band (from "Karnas" - 2011)
Guthorn, Katie (from "Why Not Smile?" - 2011)
Gyan (from "Suburban Opera" - 2015)
Hege Nielsen Kvartett (- )
Hejira (from "Hejira - Live @ The Cockpit" - 2024)
Henning Olsen Band (from "A Tribute Minus Mitchell" - 2004)
Hodgkin, Kerry (from "Table In The Corner" - 2010)
Inga Luehning & volume (from "Luehning" - )
Irma Schultz Keller (from "Blank is sånger av Joni Mitchell " - 2010)
Isaacs, Haim (from "Joni Mitchell in Jerusalem" - 2024)
Jackson, Guy (- 2023)
James, Bethany (from "Bethany" - 2023)
Jenson, Mary (- 2014)
Johnson, Molly (from "Back To The Garden" - 1992)
June (- 2019)
Kate Baker & Vic Juris ‎ (from "Return To Shore - The Duo Sessions" - 2022)
KLGO (from "Almost Blue" - 2021)
Krall, Diana (from "The Girl In The Other Room" - 2004)
Krall, Diana (from "Live at the Montréal Jazz Festival (DVD)" - 2004)
Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter (from "SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree" - 2023)
Lahm, David (from "More Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell" - 2001)
Lemoine, Stephanie (- )
Love City Music Collective (- 2020)
Lydia Van Dam Group (from "Both Sides Now" - 1999)
Mann, Debra (from "Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell" - 2018)
Marguth, Karen (from "Until" - 2021)
Martha J. and Chebat Quartet (from "Amelia" - 2024)
Montellanico, Ada (from "Suono Di Donna" - 2011)
Moore, Kate (- 2013)
New West Guitar Group (from "Send One Your Love" - 2015)
Norbert Gottschalk & Frank Haunschild (from "theduo 4 the road" - 2009)
Ogre (from "Electrodomestico" - 2012)
Paspala, Elly (- 1995)
Puglia, Lara (from "Heart and Mind: Tribute to Joni Mitchell " - 2014)
Puoane, Tutu (from "The Joni Mitchell Project - Tutu Puoane Sings Joni Mitchell Live" - 2017)
Raven (from "Chercheur d'orage" - 2014)
Redtenbacher's Funkestra (from "The Colours of Joni" - 2023)
Rex, Britta (from "On Air On Water" - 2021)
Richards, Nicki (from "The Songs of Joni Mitchell: A Soulful Tribute" - 2017)
Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet (from "Hejira Live" - 2014)
Sala, Verónica (from "Wallflower" - 2017)
Salmon, Marina (- 2016)
Sullivan, Christine (from "Away" - 2010)
Swearingen, Inga (from "Reverie" - 2005)
Taylor, Will (from "Will Taylor w/Strings Attached" - 2001)
The Bryan Thomas Band (from "PazFest - The New Orleans Tribute to Joni Mitchell at the Howlin' Wolf" - 2002)
Theissmann, Lothar (from "Palm" - 2003)
Thomas, Bryan (from "Wafers And Wine" - 1997)
Thomas, Bryan (from "Turbulent Indie Negro" - 2017)
Thomas, Cynthia Lee (from "New Worldisms" - 2019)
Thompson, Richard (from "An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell (TV Broadcast)" - 2000)
Threeway (from "Harken!" - 2024)
Tracy and the Bando'Coots (- 2014)
Trio Bert Lochs & Lydia van Dam (- 2010)
Trio Bert Lochs & Lydia van Dam (from "Live" - 2010)
Tuba (from "Insight" - 2015)
Wilson, Cassandra (from "Blue Light 'Til Dawn" - 1993)
Wilson, Julie (from "Blues On Hold" - 2014)
Witten, Jey (- )
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