Little Green
by Joni Mitchell
Born with the moon in Cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to
Call her green and the winters cannot fade her
Call her green for the children who've made her
Little green, be a gypsy dancer
He went to California
Hearing that everything's warmer there
So you write him a letter and say "Her eyes are blue"
He sends you a poem and she's lost to you
Little green he's a non-conformer
Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights 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 are 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 color when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the Northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow
© October 16, 1967; Gandalf Pub Co,
Footnotes
Transcriptions of Little Green
Little Green has been recorded by 88 other artists
- Alfonso & Electra (- 2019)
- Angel, Eleanor (from "Face To Face" - 2010)
- Anita Camarella & Davide Facchini Duo (- 2012)
- Antonia (from "Roots & Wings" - 2006)
- Arc Iris (from "Foggy Lullaby" - 2018)
- Be Slow (- 2010)
- Benoit, Aimee-Jo (from "Horns of Hope" - 2024)
- Big Yellow Taxi (from "Unknown And Famous Songs Of Joni Mitchell" - 2006)
- Blue Tapestry (from "Blue Tapestry" - 2002)
- Brinton, Melissa (from "Born With The Moon" - 2018)
- Carlile, Brandi (- 2020)
- Carow, Anna (- 2012)
- Casale, Rossana (from "Joni" - 2022)
- Cat-Berro, Lisa (from "Inside Air" - 2012)
- Chimera (- 2019)
- Citizen Helene (from "Live At Zest Seven" - 2002)
- Clark, Merideth Kaye (from "Blue " - 2016)
- Cuzhero (- 2017)
- Danny Fong & Meg Contini (- 2017)
- Dee, Charlie (from "A Tribute To Joni Mitchell Live At Kriterion" - 2009)
- Deming, Connie (from "Connie Sings Joni" - 2021)
- Dennis, Dave, And Celia (from "Dennis, Dave, And Celia" - 1975)
- Di Barius, Andrea (- 2020)
- Donuahue, Jack (from "Lighthouse" - 2002)
- Ebersole, Christine (from "After The Ball" - 2022)
- ENiid (from "A Celebration of Joni Mitchell; songs by & for her + stories" - 2015)
- Faccini, Piers (- 2015)
- Fox, Lauren (from "Love, Lust, Fear & Freedom: The Songs of Joni Mitchell & Leonard Cohen" - 2013)
- Fulvia Di Domenico and Tatoos Trio (from "Digital Single" - )
- Fur Trader (from "Executionland" - 2024)
- Guidry, Jerome (from "Coffeehouse 1970s" - 2023)
- Heenan, Trish (from "A Lot of World to See" - 2018)
- Irma Schultz Keller (from "Blank is sånger av Joni Mitchell " - 2010)
- Isaacs, Haim (- 2022)
- James, Morgan (from "Blue" - 2016)
- Jaye Evans & Louis Cooper (- 2011)
- Jazzie (from "Jazzie" - 2018)
- Jen Tak & Mirka Savčuková (from "Biograf" - 1995)
- Kadoos (from "Joni Goes Dutch" - 2014)
- Kelly McFarling & The Home Team (from "Others" - 2013)
- Kennedy, Brian (from "A Love Letter To Joni" - 2013)
- Kiki Wilmot & Kavisha Mazzella (from "Festival Folk Sing Joni Mitchell" - 2010)
- King, Peter (from "Crusade" - 1989)
- Kirke (from "Live Recording" - 1998)
- Konkova, Olga (from "Improvisational Four" - 2009)
- Kurie, Peter (from "Songs For Hillary" - 2016)
- Lautenknecht, Thomas (from "Dein Mund gehört mir - EP 2007" - 2007)
- Lesley Olsher and The Santa Fe Sound Machine (from "Anyone In Love" - 1994)
- Lesley, Sally (from "I'll Stand By You...My Dear Friend" - 2007)
- Maggie Hollinbeck & Graham Sobelman (from "Another Shade Of Blue" - 2014)
- Mailich, Sun (- )
- McFarling, Kelly (from "UnderCover, Faultline Studios and Kalx Present: Joni Mitchell's Blue" - 2012)
- Mia & The Steve Klink Trio (from "I Wish I Knew How..." - 1996)
- Molaskey, Jessica (from "Portraits of Joni" - 2017)
- Montes, Marguerite (- )
- Noonan, Katie (from "Joni Mitchell's Blue" - 2023)
- Otero, Florencia (from "Nocturno Mundo (Músicas de Joni Mitchell)" - 2012)
- Patoenlapiz (from "Digital Single" - 2022)
- Peimer, Elisa (from "Joni Mitchell's Blue: a 40th Anniversary Celebration" - 2012)
- Pendrell, Pamela (from "Songs That Sing to Me" - 2020)
- Piano Project (from "Piano Tribute to Joni Mitchell" - 2021)
- Price, Sydney (from "Sydney Price" - 2006)
- Quarantined Woodwind Ensemble (- 2020)
- Redtenbacher's Funkestra (from "BOTH SIDES NOW: AN HOMAGE TO THE SONGS OF JONI MITCHELL " - 2023)
- Reiber, Julie (from "Love Travels" - 2012)
- Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet (from "Joni Mitchell's Blue & Court And Spark - Live At Dizzy's" - 2011)
- Sandbloom, Kevin (from "Sandbloom Still Blue" - 2011)
- Santing, Mathilde (from "Both Sides Now" - 2016)
- Sascha Blejwas & Ina Hagenau (- )
- Saskia (from "Live at The Roundhouse" - 2017)
- Scott, Berenice (from "A Joni Kind Of Mood" - 2023)
- Shah, Kavita (from "Visions" - 2014)
- Skinner, Belle (from "Belle-Skinner Sings Joni Mitchell Live" - 2022)
- Speace, Amy (from "Digital Single" - 2022)
- Summerfield, Katie Rose (- 2014)
- Sunaga t experience and J.Lamotta Suzume (from "Re Blue" - 2022)
- Sunship & Ceri Evans (from "Digital Single" - 2022)
- Sutton, Tierney (from "After Blue" - 2013)
- The Bryan Thomas Band (from "PazFest - The New Orleans Tribute to Joni Mitchell at the Howlin' Wolf" - 2002)
- The Joni Mitchell Project (from "Shades of Blue" - 2023)
- The Masters School Jazz Band (from "Joni Mitchell Blue" - 2020)
- Tilmann Höhn, Annette Marquard, & Kate Nelson (from "Circle Games" - 2009)
- Timmer, Inez (from "Baas Giele Taksy" - 2021)
- Ulla Lindhardt & Comely Grace (from "Stormy Stillness" - 2003)
- Vinegar Brain (from "Love?" - 2003)
- Volker Niehusmann & Christiane Weber (from "Another Blue" - 1997)
- Wiley, Alicia (from "Halfway Home" - 2009)
- Yitsak (- )
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carmelrotem on :
this song makes me want to cry every time I listen to it.
I think a big part of the greatnes in Joni is that she can make you identify with situations you've never been in, and feel like you're living them.