"Chelsea Morning" is a song written and composed by Joni Mitchell and recorded for the singer's second album, Clouds, which she released in 1969.
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.
"[2] During coffeehouse performances of this song in the late 1960s, Mitchell explained that the stained glass had been rescued from the salvaged windows of a demolished home for unwed mothers.
The version by Judy Collins had been initially slated for Who Knows Where the Time Goes, but "Chelsea Morning" did not make the track listing for the album, instead given an April 1969 single release.
(He had previously interpreted "Both Sides Now" in a performance at Douglas Weston's Troubadour which had been recorded on his live album Gold.)