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Big Yellow Taxi Tab

by Amy Grant



BIG YELLOW TAXI - by Joni Mitchell

>From Amy Grant's "House of Love" album.

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Intro:

          
          
         
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First verse:

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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
                           
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot

Chorus:

               
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 up a parking lot

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(Shoo    bop    bop   bop   bop          Shoo   bop   bop   bop)

Second verse:

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged all the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'em

Repeat chorus:

Third verse:

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please

Repeat chorus twice:

Fourth verse:

Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man

Repeat chorus twice: