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Blue, 1971
Written by Joni Mitchell
The narrator is in Europe, but pines for California, despite the bad news in the States: "They won't give peace a chance / That was just a dream some of us had." She says of France, "I wouldn't want to stay here / It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here." The second verse, in which she sings of meeting "a redneck on a Grecian isle" is about some hippie she met. She writes about him in "Carey" as well; here she calls him a rogue and says he stole her camera. Mitchell's voice is the star, but James Taylor plays a subtle, springing acoustic guitar which sets the mood.
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