Big Yellow Taxi

Big Yellow Taxi

The Neighborhood (#29 in 1970), Joni Mitchell (#24 in 1975), Amy Grant (#18 in 1995),
Bob Dylan, Harry Styles, Counting Crows with Vanessa Carlton (2002)

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 go till it's gone?
    They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
    (Woo, pa - pa - pa - pa, Woo, pa - pa - pa - pa)

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum,
And they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em. Chorus

Hey, farmer, farmer, Put away that D.D.T. now,
Give me spots on my apples but leave the birds and the bees. Please!   Chorus

Late last night I heard the screen door slam,
And a Big Yellow Taxi took away my old man (lady)    Chorus 2x

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