"Big Yellow Taxi" Lyrics - Joni Mitchell

Lyrics

“Big Yellow Taxi”


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 up a parking lot


They took all the trees

And put them in a tree museum

And they charged all the people

A dollar and a half to see ’em

Don’t it always seem to go

That 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 D.D.T. 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 up a parking lot


Late last night

I heard the 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 up 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

Put up a parking lot


They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot


They paved paradise

Put up a parking lot