Big Yellow Taxi
(Joni Mitchell)
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 just 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 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! 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.
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.
Published 1969 Siquomb Publishing
Co. BMI
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