BIG YELLOW TAXI - by Joni Mitchell
(Transcribed by Dave Kitabjian, dave@kitabjian.com)
 
capo -1 (detune 1/2 step) Not too fast.
 
Intro:
G  D  C  D  x2
G  C  G ...
 
      C                                  G C G...
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
        C             D                G
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
 
chorus:
 
	  G              GM7
	Don't it always seem to go
	         C                       Am            G
	That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
	       C                 D                G
	They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
	 
	(Shoo    bop    bop   bop   bop          
	Shoo   bop   bop   bop)
 
 
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
  
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

Vamp:  G-C-G...
       C-G (shoo bop bop bop)
       C-D-G (shoo bop bop bop)
       
Repeat chorus
  
Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man
 
Repeat chorus

Ending:

	(no strum)
	Don't it always seem to go
	That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
	(begin strum)
	They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
	They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
	Hey, steamroll paradise <break> and put up a parking lot
	G-C-G...

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Notes:

For G-C-G..., play C with high g note.

      EADGBE
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