Big Yellow Taxi

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
     A
They paved paradise
                     E
And put up a parking lot
           A      A6add9/E  B
With a pink hotel,        a boutique
      E
And a swinging hotspot

[Chorus]
E               Badd11/E
Don't it always seem    to go
E
That you don't know what you've got til its gone
     A             E
They paved paradise
    B                E
And put up a parking lot

[Verse 2]
     A
They took all the trees
                        E
And put 'em in a tree museum
         A                 E  B                      E
And they charged the people A dollar and a half ju st
to seem 'em

[Chorus]
E               Badd11/E
Don't it always seem    to go,
E
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
     A             E
They paved paradise
    B                E
And put up a parking lot

[Verse 3]
A
Hey farmer farmer
               E
Put away the DDT now
        A              E    B                              E
Give me spots on apples And leave me the birds and the bees
Please!

[Chorus]
     E          Badd11/E
Don't it always seem    to go,
E
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
     A             E
They paved paradise
    B                E
And put up a parking lot

[Verse 4]
A
Late last night
                        E   A E B
I heard the screen door slam
    E
And a big yellow taxi
                    E Badd11/E E
Took away my old men

[Chorus]
Don't it always seem to go,
         A               E         B
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
They paved paradise
                        E
And put up a parking lot
I sayed
      Badd11/E       E
Don't it      always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got

[Outro]
    A                  E
Til its gone They paved
  B
paradise
           E         A             E
And put up a parking lot They paved
  B
paradise
           E         A             E
And put up a parking lot They paved
B
paradise
        E
And put up a