Maire Brennan Album: Misty Eyed Adventures Track: Big Yellow Taxi
Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics
(Joni Mitchell - 1970)
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique and A swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put a parking lot
The took all the trees and put Them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half just to see them Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer put away that DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees Please! Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put a parking lot
Late last night I heard a screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took away my old man Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put a parking lot
Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put a parking lot