Big yellow taxi lyrics
by Counting Crows

(feat. Vanessa Carlton)

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Oooh, bop, bop, bop
Oooh, bop, bop, bop

They took all the trees, and put them in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'till it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot

Oooh, bop, bop, bop
Oooh, bop, bop, bop

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples
Leave me the birds and the bees, please

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?

Oooh, bop, bop, bop
Oooh, bop, bop, bop

Listening late last night, I heard the screendoor slam
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away

Now don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey, now, now

Well, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'till it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot
Hey, hey, hey
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Oooh, bop, bop, bop
Oooh, bop, bop, bop

I don't wanna give it, why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away, hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it, I should wanna give it
Now you wanna giving it all away, now, now

I don't wanna give it, why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Giving it all, giving it all away, yeah, yeah

Giving it all away, yeah, yeah

Lalala...

Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot

Lalala…


Corrected by Mark Coutinho.
 

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