Little Green (song)
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"Little Green" is a song composed and performed by Joni Mitchell. It is the third track on her 1971 album Blue.
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[edit] Background
Mitchell wrote Little Green in 1967 about the daughter she had given up for adoption in 1965, when she was a poor folk singer in Toronto. The existence of her adopted daughter was not publicly known until 1993, when a roommate from Mitchell's art school days in the 1960s sold the story about the adoption to a tabloid magazine.[1][2] Mitchell commented on the situation in an interview quoted in a 1998 article:
- "I was dirt poor. An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. It was difficult parting with the child, but I had to let her go." [3]
[edit] Chords
The guitar tuning with which Joni plays the song is Open G (low-to-high: D G D G B D).
[edit] Reunion
Mitchell was reunited with her daughter, Kilauren Gibb, in 1997. [4]
[edit] References
- ^ Higgins, Bill (April 8, 1997). "Both sides at last". http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-08/news/ls-46389_1_joni-mitchell. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
- ^ Pertman, Adam (March 16, 2011). Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families -- and America. Harvard Common Press. pp. 289–. ISBN 978-1-55832-716-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=RzCLgIfmegMC&pg=PA289. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
- ^ Posner, Michael (April 11, 1998). "Little Green a Little Blue". Toronto Globe and Mail. http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=109. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
- ^ Purvis, Andrew (June 24, 2001), "Joni, No Longer Blue", Time Magazine, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,137560,00.html.
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