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Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel
In the Broadway Bridge
We're crawling on our knees
We've got flashlights and batteries
We've got cold cuts from the fridgeLast year about this time
We used to climb up in the branches
Just to sway there in some breeze
Now the cops on the street
They want Cherokee LouisePeople like to talk
Tongues are waggin' over fences
Waggin' over phones
All their doors are locked
God she can't even come to our own house
But I know where she'll goTo the place where you can stand
And press your hands like it was bubble bath
In dust piled high as me, down under the street
My friend poor Cherokee LouiseEver since we turned 13
It's like a minefield walking to the door

Going out you get the 3rd degree
And comin' in you get the 3rd World WarTuesday after school
We put our pennies on the rails
And when the train went by
We were jumpin' 'round like fools
Goin', "Look, no heads or tails"
Goin', "Look, my lucky prize"She runs home to her foster dad
He opens up a zipper
And he yanks her to her knees
Oh please be here, please
My friend poor Cherokee LouiseCherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel
In the Broadway Bridge
We're crawling on our knees
I've got Archie and Silver Screen
I know where she isThe place where you can stand
And press your hands like it was bubble bath
In dust piled high as me, down under the street
My friend poor Cherokee Louise, oh Cherokee LouiseCherokee Louise
Cherokee Louise
Cherokee Louise
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Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; 7 November 1943 - Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada) is a musician, singer-songwriter, poet and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto. Her writing and art talent emerged before her exposure as a gifted musician performing in Western Canada, including Winnipeg, where she met Neil Young. She then associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City.

Recording her début album in 1968 and achieving fame first as a songwriter ("Urge for Going", "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", "Woodstock") and then as a singer in her own right. Finally settling in Southern California, Mitchell played a key part in the folk rock movement then sweeping the musical landscape. Blue, her starkly personal 1971 album, is regarded as one of the strongest and most influential records of the time. Mitchell also had pop hits such as "Big Yellow Taxi", "Free Man in Paris", and "Help Me", the last two from 1974's best-selling Court and Spark.

In 1975 Joni released "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" which can be seen as an artistic turning point, and the beginning of her unique blend of folk, jazz and rock. It was intended as a concept album of sorts, with the "concept" being the contrast being freedom and slavery, and the idea that wealth and status sometimes ironically place a great many constraints on people's behavior.

Mitchell is also an accomplished visual artist. She has, through photography or painting, created the artwork for each of her albums, and has described herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance". A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell has stopped recording over the last several years, and now focuses mainly on her visual art, although she released a new album - Shine on 25th September 2007.

Official website: http://www.jonimitchell.com

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