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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Joni Mitchell
Vocals
Stephen Stills
Bass Guitar
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Joni Mitchell
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Art Cryst
Engineer
Lee Herschberg
Mastering Engineer
David Crosby
Producer
Lyrics
Marcie in a coat of flowers
Stops inside a candy store
Reds are sweet and greens are sour
Still no letter at her door
So she'll wash her flower curtains
Hang them in the wind to dry
Dust her tables with his shirt and wave another day goodbye
Marcie's faucet needs a plumber
Marcie's sorrow needs a man
Red is autumn, green is summer
Greens are turning and the sand
All along the ocean beaches stares up empty at the sky
Marcie buys a bag of peaches
Stops a postman passing by
And summer goes, falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper
Winter blows up from the river, there's no one to take her
To the sea
Marcie dresses warm, it's snowing
Takes a yellow cab uptown
Red is stop and green's for going
Sees a show and rides back down
Down along the Hudson River
Past the shipyards in the cold
Still no letter's been delivered
Still the winter days unfold
Like magazines fading in dusty grey attics and cellars
Make a dream, dream back to summer and hear how he tells her
"Wait for me"
Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us
Where or why she moved away
"Red is angry, green is jealous", that was all she had to say
Someone thought they saw her Sunday
Window shopping in the rain
Someone heard she bought a one-way ticket
And went West again
Writer(s): Joni Mitchell
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