It may be true that a younger Mitchell’s lyrics were liberated by Dylan’s 1965 single “ Positively 4th Street.” It may be true that Dylan fell asleep in 1974 when she played him Court and Spark. She had just released her misunderstood jazz-pop masterpiece The Hissing of Summer Lawns. Mitchell’s longstanding admiration of Dylan led her to Rolling Thunder, and because she admired Dylan, she did not look back. To her right, backing her up and following her lead, was Dylan. It’s November, 1975, and she sits in Gordon Lightfoot’s house with her acoustic guitar and her black beret and a new song that would open Hejira a year later: “Coyote.” She wrote it on and about the tour-exposing sex-drugs-rock myths in lyrics about her peers’ “temporary lovers and their pills and powders to get them through this passion play”-but more accurately, she was composing “Coyote” in real time, improvising with her surroundings. It started, more or less, on Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue.Ī clip from Martin Scorsese’s 2019 film chronicling that drug-and-nostalgia-soaked tour shows Mitchell outpacing her generation. God picked you out from all the rest, Because God knew I'd love you the best.To begin with, however, in the spring of 1976, Mitchell was running from a doomed engagement, the chaos of touring, an increasingly inhospitable music business, cocaine, and home. I really think that God above Created you for me to love. Because God made the stars to shine, Because God made the ivy twine, Because God made the skies so blue, Because God made you, that's why I love you. Tell me why the stars do shine, Tell me why the ivy twines, Tell me why the skies are blue, And I will tell you just why I love you. The new version was titled "Tell Me Why" (or can be the longer "Tell Me Why the Stars Do Shine" or "Oh, Tell Me Why (The Stars Do Shine)" and is now considered a Children's Song. In 1945, Edwards, Spaeth, and Parish modified Mower/Burtch's 1899 work "Why I Love You" into more of a traditional folk tune and took the original Chorus and built around it. Burtch Original lyrics written by Fred Mower Language English Adapted from Why I Love You written by Roy L. Music written by Michael Edwards, Sigmund Spaeth Lyrics written by Mitchell Parish Original music written by Roy L.
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