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River (Joni Mitchell song)

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Released
  
June 1971

Length
  
4:00

Writer(s)
  
Joni Mitchell

Genre
  
Folk

Label
  
Reprise

Producer(s)
  
Joni Mitchell

"River" is a Christmas folk song by Joni Mitchell, from her 1971 album Blue. Although never released as a single, it has become one of Mitchell's most recorded songs.

Although the song is merely set near Christmas time, rather than being about Christmas, it has become something of a modern Christmas standard. "River" is the second-most widely recorded song in Mitchell's oeuvre (432 recordings, behind only "Both Sides, Now"), frequently appearing on albums of Christmas music by pop, folk and jazz artists.

The piano accompaniment to the vocal borrows heavily from the tune to the nineteenth century winter song Jingle Bells.

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