Big Yellow Taxi

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Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

About Big Yellow Taxi

"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written and originally performed by Joni Mitchell. Mitchell got the idea for the song during a visit to Hawaii. She looked out of her hotel window at the spectacular Pacific mountain scenery, and then down to a parking lot. Joni said this about writing the song to journalist Alan McDougall in the early 1970s: I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. .

Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics

[00:11.09] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
[00:16.26] With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
[00:22.46] Don't it always seem to go
[00:24.83] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[00:27.84] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
[00:31.14] (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[00:36.42] They took all the trees put 'em in a tree museum
[00:41.67] And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em
[00:47.68] Don't it always seem to go
[00:50.30] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[00:53.04] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
[00:56.40] (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[01:01.67] Hey farmer, farmer put away that DDT now
[01:06.96] Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees
[01:11.37] Please
[01:12.78] Don't it always seem to go
[01:15.33] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[01:18.31] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
[01:21.74] (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[01:26.80] Late last night I heard the screen door slam
[01:31.92] And a big yellow taxi took away my old man
[01:38.03] Don't it always seem to go
[01:40.44] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[01:43.64] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[01:49.01] I said don't it always seem to go
[01:52.06] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[01:56.08] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[02:01.76] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[02:07.19] They paved paradise
[02:08.67] Put up a parking lot
[02:09.65]

From the album: Acoustic 70's

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