Big Yellow Taxi

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BIG YELLOW TAXI- Joni Mitchell

TUNING: Standard

(This is not how JM does it but this is my interpretation and it sounds pretty good if

want an easy way to play this song that sounds good)

G D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

G A D

With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swingin' hot spot

CHORUS:

D A

Don't it always seem to go

G D

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

G A D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

G D

They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum

G A D

And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em

CHORUS

G D

Hey farmer farmer, put away that D.D.T. now

G A D

Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees

D

please

CHORUS

G D

Late last night I heard the screen door slam

G A D

And a big yellow taxi took away my old man

CHORUS TWICE

D G A D

Yeah they paved paradise, put up a parking lot

D G A D

I said they paved paradise, put up a parking lot