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Amelia

I was driving across the burning desert
When I spotted 6 jet planes
Leaving six white vapor trails beyond the bleak terrain
It was the hexagram of the heavens
Information technology was the strings of my guitar
Amelia * it was just a false alarm

The drone of flying engines
Is a song so wild and bluish
It scrambles time and seasons if it gets thru to you
Then your life becomes a travelogue
Of moving picture mail card charms
Amelia it was just a simulated alarm

People volition tell yous where they've gone
They'll tell you lot where to go
Only till y'all get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Others only come to harm
Oh, Amelia it was just a imitation alarm

I wish that he was hither tonight
It'southward so difficult to obey
His sad request of me to kindly stay away
So this is how I hibernate the injure
As the road leads cursed and charmed
I tell Amelia it was simply a false warning

A ghost of aviation
She was swallowed by the sky
Or past the sea similar me she had a dream to wing
Similar Icarus ascending
On beautiful foolish arms
Amelia it was merely a faux alert

Possibly I've never actually loved
I guess that is the truth
I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitudes
And looking downwards on everything
I crashed into his arms
Amelia information technology was just a false warning

I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel
To shower off the dust
And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust
I dreamed of 747s
Over geometric farms
Dreams Amelia - dreams and false alarms

© September 2, 1976; Crazy Crow Music

Footnotes to Amelia

Related articles from the Library

• Joni Mitchell ends every verse except the last with 'Amelia it was just a imitation warning' (JazzBluesNews.Space, 2018)
• Amelia Illustrated (Behance.net, 2015)

Transcriptions of Amelia

• Guitar chords by Mark Domyancich
• Guitar chords by Sue McNamara
• Guitar tablature by Samuel Souk-Aloun
• Guitar chords past Marian Russell
• Guitar tablature & notation by Dave Blackburn

Piano Transcriptions of Amelia

• by Dave Blackburn

Amelia has been recorded by 54 other artists

• Alessandra Bosco & Simone Nobili (- 2011)
• Amed, Roxana (from "Limbo" - 2004)
• Aznar, Pedro (from "A Solas Con El Mundo" - 2010)
• Built-in to Wander (from "Born to Wander" - 2014)
• Buckley, Betty (from "unreleased live recording" - 2003)
• Buckley, Betty (from "Quintessence (Rhapsody Exclusive)" - 2008)
• Collister, Christine (from "Beloved..." - 2005)
• Colman, Sara (from "Ink On A Pin" - 2021)
• Colored Wolf (from "blueish.sing" - 2006)
• Colvin, Shawn & Mary Chapin-Carpenter (from "An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell (Boob tube Broadcast)" - 2000)
• Crosby, David (from "Sky Trails" - 2017)
• Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin (from "Spin" - 1991)
• Faithfull, Marianne (from "(Live Operation)" - 1983)
• Flock Of Dimes (from "Phantom Limb" - 2022)
• Florian Ross & Lucas Leidinger (from "Checks & Balances" - 2021)
• Garber, Robinlee  (from "Resilience" - 2016)
• Glassman, Rita  (from "All The Way Domicile" - 2017)
• Greene, John (from "Crying Time Once again" - 2021)
• HaAruba, Omek (from "עֹמֶק הָאֲרֻבָּה" - 2021)
• Hamburger, Alex (from "Vapor Trails" - 2019)
• Hancock, Herbie (from "River - The Joni Messages" - 2007)
• Howell, Doug (- 2021)
• Irma Schultz Keller (from "Blank is sånger av Joni Mitchell " - 2010)
• James, Etta (from "A Case Of Joni" - 2000)
• Kennedy, Brian (from "A Beloved Letter of the alphabet To Joni" - 2013)
• Krall, Diana (from "Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration" - 2019)
• Maria Pia De Vito, Danilo Rea,Enzo Pietropaoli, Aldo Romano (from "So Right" - 2005)
• Martin, Claire (from "Live On The BBC" - 2003)
• Mellgren, Craig (from "Dreamland" - 2012)
• Michael Paz Ring (from "PazFest - The New Orleans Tribute to Joni Mitchell at the Howlin' Wolf" - 2002)
• Milne, Andy (from "Dreams and False Alarms" - 2007)
• Naked Blue (from "Strathmore Presents - A Tribute To Joni Mitchell" - 2009)
• Nixon, Damian (- 2007)
• Pavolka, Akiko (from "House of Illusion" - 1998)
• Pianoforte Project (from "Piano Tribute to Joni Mitchell" - 2021)
• Powell, Elena (- 2005)
• Puglia, Lara (from "Heart and Mind: Tribute to Joni Mitchell " - 2014)
• Refraction (from "Reimagined" - 2017)
• Risso, Stefano  (from "Vocifero Vol. 1 - Canzoni" - 2007)
• Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet (from "Safaris to the Heart - The Songs of Joni Mitchell" - 2010)
• Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet (from "Hejira Live" - 2014)
• Roxana Amed & Pedro Aznar (- 2007)
• Salas, Stevie  (from "Back From The Living" - 1995)
• Salleh, Anna  (from "A Felicidade" - 2012)
• Sam Stephens and Anne Lennox-Martin (from "Turn The Music On" - 1983)
• Santing, Mathilde (from "Both Sides Now" - 2016)
• Sciolla, Annie  (from "Soul Total Snapshot to Joni" - 2019)
• Tatyana Balakirsky & Alex Nadjarov (from "Live at MuzEnergo-4" - 2008)
• And then In that location Were Two (from "Then In that location Were 2" - 2007)
• Tilmann Höhn, Annette Marquard, & Kate Nelson  (from "Circle Games" - 2009)
• Timmer, Inez (from "Baas Giele Taksy" - 2022)
• Varela, Israel (from "Border People" - 2010)
• Waters, Peter (from "Il Sacro E Il Profano" - 2001)
• Yoghill (from "Jonisongs" - 2003)
• [more than information on recordings by other artists]

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