Winter Lady Songtext
von Joni Mitchell

Winter lady, where are you going
With your hair all soft and loose like snowin′?
Winter girl, December child, don't run away

Winter lady, walking sadly
Does your lover treat you badly?
Do you dream or wish on stars
To hear him say

"Oh, Winter lady, I won′t hurt you
I won't cheat you, I won't desert you
Winter lady, you need lovin′
I need lovin′, too, I need lovin' you"

Staring out your winter window at a silver sky
You know you′ve been to in a kiss upon a day
Before a spring

Winter lady, cry those crystal tears
He won't know what he′s missed
'Til love′s too late, you've changed your mind
And it's my turn to sing


Oh, Winter lady, I won′t hurt you
I won′t cheat you, I won't desert you
Winter lady, you need lovin′
I need lovin' too, I need lovin′ you

I was reading somewhere in
Some kind of rock 'n′ roll magazine
True confessions of Bob Dylan
And I discovered a very interesting thing
As he confessed for about five pages
One of the things that he confessed to was
A song of his called, "Hard Rain"
Which was recorded by a lot of people and
Made him a lot of little loyalty pennies

Was a song that he composed from leftover lines
From about a dozen songs that he never finished
And he just sorta took all these leftover lines
And threw them all together into one big song
So I kind of dug through my songwriting portfolio
And found out that I had about 12 songs lying around
That probably will never get finished


And I thought that would be a good way to used 'em up
Just to sorta pull in all the best lines and weld them all together
And maybe it would be recorded by lots of people
And bring in lots of those little royalty pennies
Well, as it turned out, the song hasn't been recorded by anyone
As a matter of fact, I had a lot of trouble with some of the lines and
And em, I had to build them around a rock and roll rhythm
That′s what you do to save a rotten lyric, and it goes like

And to give you an idea of how
Some of the things I borrowed from unfinished songs evolved
Was one song that I started that was about a gambler
And em, it was called, "The Gambler Song" and it went

In a day or two, I′ll be laying you out

Well, my manager and my mother said that I shouldn't finish that song
So I still had that line just kind of lying around and not doing anything and
And so that′s one that I used and ehm
I incorporated them all around a very basic kinda rock and rolly plot
It's a story of a feller named Mr. Blue, who had a girlfriend
Who he treated very badly, and so eventually she left him, and it served him right
That′s the plot, it goes like-