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“Chelsea Morning” is a song written by Joni Mitchell and introduced on the singer’s 1969 album Clouds.. The song was inspired by Mitchell’s room in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The inspiration for the first verse comes partly from the distinct décor of her apartment. While in Philadelphia, Mitchell and friends had made a mobile from shards of colored glass they had found in the street and wire coat hangers, which filtered the light coming into her room through the window and created the “rainbow on the wall”. During coffeehouse performances of this song in the late 1960s, Mitchell explained that the famous stained glass was rescued from the salvaged windows of a demolished home for unwed mothers. The lyrics of this song demonstrate Mitchell’s talent with... Read on...