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Compare the similarities in the lyrical imagery Jimi Hendrix and Joni
Mitchell employ in these two songs, 'Little Wing' and 'Both Sides Now'.
Note: Both Sides Now was written BEFORE Little Wing, in 1967.


--Joni Mitchell from *'Both Sides Now'* 

         "Bows and flows of Angel Hair
         And Ice Cream Castles in the air
         and Feather Canyons everywhere
         I've looked at clouds that way."

--Jimi Hendrix from *'Little Wing'*

         "Well she's walking through the clouds
         With a circus mind that's running round"
             

Joni:    "Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
         The dizzy dancing way you feel
         As every Fairy Tale comes real."
         I've looked at love that way."

Jimi:    "Butterflies and zebras
         And moonbeams and fairy tales
         That's all she ever thinks about
         Riding with the wind."

Joni:    "Tears and fears and feeling proud
         To say 'I love you' right out loud
         Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
         I've looked at life that way."

Jimi:    "When I'm sad, she comes to me
         With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free
         It's alright she says it's alright
         Take anything you want from me, anything
         Anything."

Joni:    "But now old friends are acting strange
         They shake their heads they say I've changed
         But somethings lost but somethings gained
         In living every day."

Jimi:    "Fly on little wing."






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"I met Jimi Hendrix at the Capitol Theatre in Ottawa, and after his set, he
came down , and he brought a big reel-to reel tape recorder. He introduced
himself very shyly and said, "Would you mind if I taped your show?" I said,
not at all. And later that evening, we went back, we were staying at the
same hotel. He and his drummer Mitch, the three of us were talking. It was
so innocent. But the management, all they saw was three hippies.  We were
outcasts anyway. A black hippie! Two men and a woman in the same room. So
they kept telling us to play lower.  It was a very creative, special night.
We were playing like children."--JM




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