Be Inspired by Joni Mitchell’s `Big Yellow Taxi’
In 1994, when Amy Grant covered Joni Mitchell’s song “Big Yellow Taxi,” I found a new favorite song. My dad and I used to sing along to it whenever it came on the radio. I heard it the other day playing in CVS and was reminded how awesome the lyrics are. So remind yourself, or discover, how environmentally powerful a song Mitchell wrote in 1970:
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 dont know what you’ve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put ‘em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ‘em
Don’t it always seem to go
That you dont know what you’ve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And 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 dont know what you’ve got
Till its 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 dont know what you’ve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot


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