Songs of a Prairie Girl is the third (and last) in Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

's series of compilations. Mitchell writes in the liner notes to the CD that the compilation is her contribution to Saskatchewan's Centennial Celebration and that the songs of the album reference Saskatchewan. Although Mitchell was born in Alberta, when she was eleven years old, her family settled in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which Mitchell considers her hometown.

Track listing

1. "Urge for Going" – 5:08
2. "The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)" – 4:54
3. "Cherokee Louise" [Orchestral Version] – 6:01
4. "Ray's Dad's Cadillac" – 4:33
5. "Let the Wind Carry Me" – 3:56
6. "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" – 6:38
7. "Raised on Robbery" – 3:07
8. "Paprika Plains" [Mix] – 16:19
9. "Song for Sharon" – 8:37
10. "River" – 4:05
11. "Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody" – 5:18
12. "Harlem in Havana" – 4:27
13. "Come In from the Cold" [Edit] – 3:38

(All songs written by Joni Mitchell except "Unchained Melody

Unchained Melody

"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It has become one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....

" written by Hy Zaret

Hy Zaret

Hy Zaret was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.-Biography:...

 and Alex North

Alex North

Alex North was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood ....

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