 Unable to provide for the baby, she placed her daughter, Kelly Dale Anderson, for adoption.The experience remained private for most of Mitchell's career, although she alluded to it in several songs, such as "Little Green," which she performed in the 1960s and recorded eventually for the 1971 album "Blue".In "Chinese Cafe", from the 1982 album "Wild Things Run Fast", Mitchell sang, "Your kids are coming up straight / My child's a stranger / I bore her / But I could not raise her."