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

[00:11.29] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
[00:16.22] With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
[00:22.43] Don't it always seem to go
[00:24.87] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[00:28.05] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
[00:31.12] (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[00:36.42] They took all the trees put 'em in a tree museum
[00:41.68] And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em
[00:47.69] Don't it always seem to go
[00:50.30] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[00:53.23] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
[00:56.46] (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[01:01.66] Hey farmer, farmer put away that DDT now
[01:06.69] Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees
[01:11.32] Please
[01:12.78] Don't it always seem to go
[01:15.38] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[01:18.36] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
[01:21.73] (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[01:26.83] Late last night I heard the screen door slam
[01:31.94] And a big yellow taxi took away my old man
[01:38.07] Don't it always seem to go
[01:40.45] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[01:43.69] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[01:48.88] I said don't it always seem to go
[01:52.03] That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
[01:56.06] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[02:01.70] They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
[02:07.47] They paved paradise
[02:08.88] Put up a parking lot
[02:13.61]

From the album: Absolute 70's