Little Green (song)

"Little Green" is a song composed and performed by Joni Mitchell. It is the third track on her 1971 album "Blue".

Background

Mitchell wrote "Little Green" in 1967 about the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption as a poor art-school student at Calgary, Alberta. 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." [ [http://www.jmdl.com/library/view.cfm?id=109 Joni Mitchell Database, retrieved 3-31-08] ]

The song showcases Mitchell's sensitivity and was re-written a number of times before its release.

Chords

The guitar tuning with which Joni plays the song is Open G (low-to-high: D G D G B D).

Reunion

Mitchell was subsequently reunited with her daughter, Kilauren Gibb, by a Toronto pub owner in 1997. (The pub owner was an old friend of Mitchell's from her Yorkville coffeehouse days in the late 1960s; Gibb was a regular customer of the pub.)

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