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Pete Seeger- Both Sides, Now

Originally written/sang by- Joni Mitchell (1969). She re-recorded the song in a lusher, more orchestrated version for the album Both Sides Now, released in 2000. This video is a tribute to Mr. Pete Seeger.

Joni said, ' I was reading a book, and I haven't finished it yet, called "Henderson the Rain King." And there's a line in it that I especially got hung up on that was about when he was flying to Africa and searching for something, he said that in an age when people could look up and down at clouds, they shouldn't be afraid to die. I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too, and I immediately started writing the song. I had no idea that the song would become as popular as it did. And so I got this idea 'from both sides now.' There are a lot of sides to everything, and so the song is called "From Both Sides, Now.

It is one of Joni's best-known songs (along with "Big Yellow Taxi", "Woodstock", and "A Case of You"). It was written in March 1967, inspired by a passage in Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.

Pete Seeger added a more optimistic fourth verse to the song. The new lyrics are in Seeger's book Where Have All the Flowers Gone in the chapter "New Words?"

This song was covered by many artist last few decades from 60's to till now- Judy Collins, Frank Sinatra, Leonard Nimoy, Nana Mouskouri, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, Andy Williams, and many more.

Both Sides, Now

by Joni Mitchell

Rows and flows of angel hair

And ice cream castles in the air

And feather canyons everywhere

I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun

They rain and snow on everyone

So many things I would have done

But clouds got in my way

I've looked at clouds from both sides now

From up and down, and still somehow

It's cloud illusions I recall

I really don't know clouds at all

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

But now it's just another show

You leave 'em laughing when you go

And if you care, don't let them know

Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now

From give and take, and still somehow

It's love's illusions I recall

I really don't know love at all

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

But now old friends are acting strange

They shake their heads, they say I've changed

Well something's lost, but something's gained

In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now

From win and lose and still somehow

It's life's illusions I recall

I really don't know life at all

I've looked at life from both sides now

From up and down and still somehow

It's life's illusions I recall

I really don't know life at all.

Daughter, daughter, don't you know

You're not the first to feel just so?

So let me say, before I go,

It's worth it any way:

Some day we all may be surprised,

We'll wake, and open up our eyes

And then at last, we'll realize

The whole world feels this way:

We've all been living upside down

And turned around, with love unfound

Until we turn and face the sun

All of us, yes, everyone.

Originally recorded: © 1967 Gandalf Publishing Co.

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