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Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics

Artist: Joni Mitchell

Album: Miscellaneous

Genre: Rock

  • Songwriters: Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go?
Don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

Took all the trees, put 'em 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?
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples, leave me the birds and the bees
Please, don't it always seem to go?
You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

Late last night, I heard that scream door slam
And a big yellow tractor come and pushed around my house
Pushed around my land
I said, "Don't it always seem to go?"
You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

Late last night, I heard that scream door slam again
And a big yellow taxi come and took away my old man, again
Don't it always seem to go?
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
Oh they paved paradise and they put up those parking lots
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

They put up a parking lot
They put up a parking lot


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