Big Yellow Taxi

Album

Yes I Am

Label

A&M Records

Genre

-Pop

Duration

0:00

Composer(s)

J.Mitchell

Entered Chart

Jun 17, 1995

Peak Date

Jul 29, 1995

Released

March 1995

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

A&M 0976

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

Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop



They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum

And then they charged all the poeple twenty-five bucks just 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 put up a parking lot

Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop



Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT 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

I say, they paved paradise and they 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 and put up a parking lot

     Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop



Late last night I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi carried off 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 they put up a parking lot

Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop



     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

     Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop



     Oh, now, they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

     Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop

     Hey, steam rolled paradise and put up a parking lot

     Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop