Big Yellow Taxi
By: The Counting Crows
Tabbed by: Jon Micetic
Tuning
G-B-D-G-D-G capo on first fret
Intro/Verse
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
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With a pink hotel of boots you get a swingin’ hot spot
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Chorus
Don’t it always seem to go that you
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don’t know what you got till its gone
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they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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They took all the trees......
Chorus
Hey farmer, farmer put away.......
Chorus
Jam
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Listen late last night I heard the screen door sway
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And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
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Chorus X 2
Ending
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