Big Yellow Taxi

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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They paved   paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
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That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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   They took all the trees,
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and put em in a tree museum
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And they charged the people a dollar and a half to
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see   them
No, no, no

[Chorus]
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Don't it always seem to go
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That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
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They paved paradise,
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and put up a parking lot

[Verse 2]
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   Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
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I don't care about spots on my apples,
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Leave me the birds and the bees
Please

[Chorus]
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Don't it always seem to go
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That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
     C                  D
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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   Hey now,
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they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
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   Why not?

[Solo]
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Listen, late last night,
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I heard the screen door   slam

[Bridge]
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And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Don't it always seem to go
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That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Chorus]
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Well, don't it always seem to go
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That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
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They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
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   Why not?
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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey
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Paved paradise and put up a parking   lot

[Outro]
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I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
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Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
C
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
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Now you giving it all away
C
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
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Why you wanna giving it all away
            C
Cos' you're givin it all
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Givin it all away
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     Hey,
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paved paradise to put up a parking lot

[Fade-Out]
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