Lesson In Survival (track)
by Joni Mitchell

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Lesson In Survival appears on the following album(s) by Joni Mitchell:

• For The Roses (track #4) (this album) (1972)
• The Studio Albums 1968-1979 (track #46) (compilation) (2012)

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This track is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 81.0/100, a mean average of 80.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 15.0.

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