Big Yellow Taxi

Counting Crows, Vanessa Carlton

• G5G5G5G5
  S1:
  They paved paradise 

  And put up a parking lot 

  With a pink hotel, a boutique 

  And a swingin' hot spot
• GGmaj7CDGmaj7C/G
  R1:
  Don't it always seem to go 

  That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone 

  They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
• Gmaj7G6
  M1:
  Ooooh, bop bop bop 

  Ooooh, bop bop bop
• CCDGG
  S2:
  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
• GGmaj7CDGmaj7C/GG/H
  R2:
  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
• G6Gmaj7
  M1:
  Ooooh, bop bop bop 

  Ooooh, bop bop bop
• GGC/GC/GAmi7
  S3:
  Hey farmer, farmer 

  Put away your DDT 

  I don't care about spots on my apples 

  Leave me the birds and the bees, please
• GGmaj7G/HCDGCDGmaj7C/G
  R3:
  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
• G6Gmaj7
  M1:
  Ooooh, bop bop bop 

  Ooooh, bop bop bop
• GC/GC/GGC/GGEmiCCG/D
  M2:
  x---x---x---x 

  x---x---x---x 

  x---x---x---x 

  x---x---x---x 

  x---x---x---x 

  x---x---x---x 

  x---x---x---x 

  x---x---x---x 

  x---x---x
• NCGCDG
  S4:
  Listen, late last night 

  I heard the screen door slam 

  And a big yellow taxi 

  Took my girl away
• GGmaj7CGCDGGGmaj7CCDGCDGCDGmaj7G
  R4:
  Now, don't it always seem to go 

  That you don't know what you got  

  'Til it's gone 

  They paved paradise 

  And put up a parking lot, hey na na 

  Don't it always seem to go 

  That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone 

  They paved paradise 

  To put up a parking lot, why not? 

  They paved paradise 

  And put up a parking lot, hey, hey, hey 

  Paved paradise and put up a parking lot
• G6Gmaj7
  M1:
  Ooooh, bop bop bop 

  Ooooh, bop bop bop
• GC/GGC/GC/GGC/GDG
  B:
  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, ah, she wanna give it 

  'Cause she's giving it all away, now, now 

  I don't wanna give it, why you wanna give it? 

  Why you wanna give it all away? 

  'Cause you're giving it all 

  Giving it all away, yeah, yeah
• Cadd9GCadd9GCadd9GCadd9GCadd9GCadd9GAmi7Ami7Ami7Ami7Ami7Ami7
  D:
  x---x---x-- 

  Why d'you want me? 

  x---x---x-- 

  Why do you want to? (She's giving it all away, hey, hey, hey) 

  x---x---x-- 

  La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la 

  Hey, paved paradise 

  To put up a parking lot 

  x---x---x---x 

  x---x---x---x 

  La-la, la-la-la, na-na-na-na, na-na-na