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Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics

Artist: Joni Mitchell
Album: Big Yellow Taxi

Big Yellow Taxi
The Neighborhood

- Peak Position #29 on 8-8-70
- This song was also a hit by Joni Mitchell peaking at
# 24 on 1-25-75 (It was a live version)

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
and a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And they put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer
Put away that D.D.T. now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Dont it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

From: Bill & Selma Turner erols.com>

Comments/Interpretations
by shadowwolf on 3/27/2009 4:38pm this is such a sad song. It is very true. people like destroying our land. I cant belive they cant see what theyre doing.

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