A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR 'IF I HAD A HEART.' MITCHELL, JONI. BORN 1943. Autograph Manuscript, 'If I Had a Heart, I'd Cry,' 2 pp, 4to, n.p., c.2007, on yellow foolscap, minor creasing and wear. WITH: Joni Mitchell: Mixed Media Originals. Los Angeles: Lev Morass Gallery, 2109. Original blindstamped corrugated cardboard covers. HANDWRITTEN LYRICS FOR MITCHELL'S POIGNANT ELEGY ABOUT THE STATE OF THE WORLD. Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is one of the most innovative and influential voices of the 20th century. Her songs 'Chelsea Morning,' 'Both Sides Now,' and 'Big Yellow Taxi' are among the most recognized and memorable of the era. She continued to record and tour through the 1990s, but took a ten-year break from writing around 1997, returning to the studio to record Shine, inspired by her opposition to the war in Iraq, in 2007. The songs on Shine focus on political and environmental issues in the vein of her earlier works. The present manuscript features Mitchell's original lyrics for the song 'If I Had a Heart' (here titled 'If I Had a Heart, I'd Cry'). It reads: Holy war Genocide, Suicide Hate and cruelty How can this be holy? If I had a heart I'd cry In ancient tales The good go to heaven And the wicked ones burn in hell Ring the funeral bells If I had a heart I'd cry There are too many people now And too little land Too much rage and desire You feel so feeble now It's so out of hand Big bombs and barbed wire Can't you see Our destiny We're making this earth our funeral pyre! Holy Earth How can we heal you We cover you like a blight Strange birds of appetite If I had a heart I'd cry For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing