Urge For Going

NOTE TO NEVADA: Please file under both Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills

and Nash.

URGE FOR GOING- Joni Mitchell/ Crosby and Nash

I awoke today and found frost had perched on the town

Harbored in a frozen sky and all the summer down

And when the wind turned trade and cold

And all the trees are shivering in a naked row

I get the urge for going but I never seem to go

And I get the urge for going

When the meadow grass is turning brown

And the summertime is falling down

And the winter's closing in

I had a girl in summertime with summer colored skin

And not another man in ten my darling's heart could win

When the leaves fell tremblin' down

(Bullies wished (?)) to rub their faces in the snow

She got the urge for goin', I had to let her go ...CHORUS

Now the warriors of winter give a cold triumphant shout

All that stays is dying, all that lives is getting out

See the geese in chevron flight

Laughing and a-racing off before the snow

They got the urge for going and they've got the wings to go ...CHORUS TWICE

NOTE: I don't have a copy of the Joni Mitchell version since its so rare-

I only know the Crosby-Nash version. Perhaps someone with the Michell

version might be able to pick out some of the words that I couldnt quite

catch.

(according the the CSN box set liner notes, the song was written by J.M.

in the mid sixties but not released by her until 1972 as the b-side of

You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio. The Crosby-Nash version was done in 1971 but

not released until the CSN box set came out a few years ago)

(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)