In case anyone wants all the lyrics, here is one of many sites:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jonimitchell/bigyellowtaxi.html
Big Yellow Taxi"
They paved paradise
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 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
Hey, farmer, farmer,
Put away that 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 'til its gone?
They paved paradise
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 don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
I said
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
From: John Layton [
Sent: Tuesday, 12 June, 2018 5:59 PM
To: Canberra birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Re: Old growth trees
This reminds me of the Joni Mitchell song
Big Yellow Taxi that includes lines something like, They cut down all the trees put ‘em in a tree museum/ charged the people a dollar and a half just to see ’em.
John Layton
Holt.
