Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell


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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swingin' hot spot


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Don't it always seem to go
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That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

(Ooo, bop bop bop bop, ooo, bop bop bop bop)


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


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Hey farmer farmer, put away that DDT now
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Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the  bees now


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Late last night I heard the screen door slam
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And a big yellow taxi took away my old man


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     C               D                 G
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooo bop bop bop bop)
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They paved paradise, put up a parking lot