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Artist: Joni Mitchell
Canonical path: /mitchell-joni/ballerina-valerie
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Ballerina Valerie
Read Ballerina Valerie lyrics by Joni Mitchell on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Ballerina Valerie
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Down in the garden
Under a leaf, she was smoking her keef
And she was looking at stardom
Everything's bright as she draws on the pipe
And the bowl glows redder
And things look better
Mars is a ruby
Saturn is sapphire, it burns with a blue fire
Colors run through me
Loosen my thinking, they're flashing and blinking
And always changing, rearranging
Ballerina, Valerie now
Move me through your crimson dances
Terragan, a red bandana
Bring me down your silver trances
Down in the garden
Under an oak, he was drinking his Coke
And he was looking at stardom
Everything's bright as he draws on the pipe
And the bowl glows redder
And things go better with Coca-Cola
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Joni Mitchell performs "Ballerina Valerie", and this lyric page sits inside the Joni Mitchell catalog on LyroVerse.
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