Chords for Joni Mitchell - Blue on Blue & Interview

_ _ For this next song I have to go into a rather funny tune.
This is a song [B] about a daydreamer.
_ [Eb] _ [Abm] And actually while we're on the topic of fairer schools and merry-go-rounds and things like that,
I should tell you that I was at an exhibition in Regina, Saskatchewan,
and I was just wandering along the midway,
and I happened to [Ab] overhear a conversation between a young [Cm] couple,
who were obviously on their first date.
[B] _ _ _ [G] And it was probably the classic example of when not to [Eb] be a daydreamer,
[G] because daydreaming can get [Ab] you into a lot of difficulty [A] sometimes.
[Bb] It's not used properly.
[Eb] _ _
_ The couple, like [Bb] I said, were obviously on their first date,
and the conversation was mostly hers, and it went something like [Eb] this.
Gee, I'm really glad that we got this chance to go out [B] tonight to the fair and all.
Things are so exciting. _
I really wanted to tell you for a long time that I think we're really neat.
See, I have locked a 365, and it's just a little ways down from yours.
I think yours is 372 or something like [Bm] that, roughly.
And, you see, my girlfriend, Judy, she's the one with the red hair who has the locker next to her.
That's locker 366.
You've probably seen her.
We always watch her when we walk down the halls at school.
We always say, Wow, he's really [B] neat, isn't he?
She always says, Yeah, he's really neat.
She's probably going to be really full when I tell her when I get back to school
that we went to the fair and all and had a beautiful time, even though it was that street.
Well, I just wanted to tell you that I had a beautiful time, [Eb] and I think you're really cool.
But at that point, he looked up at her with a faraway, distant look in his eyes and said _ _ [Bb] very dramatically, _ _ Huh?
_ [Eb] _ That's when not to be a daydreamer.
So I decided to write a song for her, and I call it _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Song to a Daydreamer or Blue on Blue. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Blue on blue, [Bb] skies and lights. _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ Where do you go when you finally [Eb] decide _ [Ab] that you [Bb] wish I'd [Eb] disappear?
Dream, little dreamer, [Bb] leave your [Ab] lost little [Gb] world before your own.
[Eb] _ Can I come to you?
Blue [Bb] on blue, _ _ _
[Ab] dreams like you [Gb] are making now [Eb] are very hard to.
_ _ [Ab] _ All I [Gb] ask is one small [Eb] favor.
Dream a dream [Bb] and wish [Bb] me there.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ Go on, go, [Bb] send your _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ goodbyes for the midnight air.
[Ab] _ Counting the [Bbm] gold that the rainbow tears.
[Eb] _
Maybe it was six _ _ _ [Ab] out of the time [Gb] before I came.
[Eb] _ I'll never know.
[Bb] Gold on gold, _ _ _ [Ab] dreams _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Eb] are very hard to share.
_ [Ab] All I ask [Gb] is one small favor.
[Eb] Dream a [F] dream and wish me there. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Jolie Mitchell, a very young lady, [N] Saskatchewan born.
If you've never heard of her before, if you've met her for the first time here,
you know you're going to meet her again _ quite a bit during your lifetime. _ _
You're just starting out, sort of, aren't you?
_ Actually, I've been singing professionally now for two years,
but I consider that I've only started within the last year
because I've only felt that I've begun to have my own way to go,
my own songs and my own guitar style,
and I'm starting to get my own vocal styling now.
How do you determine when you've sort of arrived
and are what you want to be in this game, if you like?
Well, I think that you have to feel it inside, but you do need encouragement. _
_ And I've just been becoming more and more successful,
and it's sort of a law of averages.
It depends on_
you don't bomb anymore.
That's what it is.
Did you ever bomb?
I can't believe that.
Oh, I don't know.
I think bombing is a thing that is felt in your head sometimes.
I've done performances where I didn't particularly excite anyone.
I think they said, well, that's nice. _
Whereas I think that now sometimes that I can excite people.
Your songs have an interesting quality about them.
They're very_
for want of a better word,
I think one just has to say poetic. _
Because they have a kind of_
a kind of eternity about them.
They're not just about love and loss
and the things that we normally associate with this kind of singing. _
Well, I'm very Canadian.
You know that I live in the States now.
No.
No, you don't.
Well, I'm married and American, and I'm living in New York.
_ And I find that I've become more Canadian since I've moved to the States.
I think maybe you do that.
I think that I've become more Canadian
And the songs that I've been writing within the last year
have had more and more of a prairie flavor, if not_
[D] _ throughout the [E] song, at least I set the song in Canada.
For instance, I've written a song [A] about a carnival in Kenora
and things like that, and I'm always looking for Canadian ideas.
You know, Canadian places instead of carnival in Detroit.
I don't like the songs I could drag anymore.
_ I see all these cars going around in circles.
Well, Joni, who are you singing all these songs to?
The sort of coffeehouse group, are_
do they already know the message, or is there a message that you're trying to give them, or anybody?
The general message of my songs, I guess, is just happiness.
Most of them have happy endings, and_
I don't write protest-y things.
If they protest at all, it's very subtle, and they're sort of_
the message comes out like, don't do this, or try not to be that way,
but it's built through happiness, so that it doesn't stand up there and sort of preach at people.
What do you mean by happiness, Joni?
Well, as a matter of fact, while I was here,
while I was in Toronto the last time, I got a bad review,
and what the review amounted to, I think, was that I was too happy,
and he criticized it for lack of depth.
It was sort of like everything was happy, you know.
He said I wasn't saccharine, but I was a little hearts and flowery.
That's what he said.
Mind you, I should say now, too, that I had two excellent reviews.
_ Plus this one that wasn't so good.
And so he criticized me for being happy, and that's what I think my songs are.
I can't explain it any more than that.
They're just_
Even the sad songs aren't depressing.
They're just sort of wistful.
Have you always been happy?
_ I try to be.
No, nobody's happy all the time.
Have you always wanted to be a happy singer and writer of songs?
Well, I started out in folk music, of course, doing traditional ballads,
which were these long English things about ladies so-and-so
whose [G] husband killed her while her lover was standing at the foot of the bed and things,
and House of the Rising Sun, about a girl who's been [N] led astray,
and I think maybe that's why my songs are all happy,
because in the beginning they were all so dreary.
They were beautiful, but they were just very miserable songs.
Is there a big future in happiness?
Well, I don't know.
I've been told by a couple of people I'm not what's currently happening, baby,
but I think that they'll come around.
I had a long talk with a fellow named Paul Allen,
who is one of the people who did The Endless Summer,
and they told him the same thing,
that his movie wasn't currently what was happening, baby,
because it was too happy and it didn't have any drama or anything,
or sex in it or plot and all those things.
It happens to be a perfectly beautiful picture.
It was a lovely picture, so he convinced me that