Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi Chord And Lyric

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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Cadd9                                    G
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot

G                     C/B    
Don't it always seem to go

    Cadd9
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone

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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

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Ooooh  bop bop bop

Cadd9
Ooooh  bop bop bop

Cadd9 G
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum

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And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them

No, no, no

G                     C/B
Don't it always seem to go

    Cadd9
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone

Cadd9      D             G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

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Ooooh, bop bop bop

Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop

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Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT

   Cadd9
I don't care about spots on my apples

 D                               G
Leave me the birds and the bees

Please

G                     C/B
Don't it always seem to go

    Cadd9                                              G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone

         Cadd9                 D                  G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

                     Cadd9 D                       G
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot

Why not?

G
Ooooh, bop bop bop

Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop

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Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam

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And a big yellow taxi took my girl away

G
Don't it always seem to go

    Cadd9                                               G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone

         Cadd9                 D                    G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

G                          C/B
Well, don't it always seem to go

   Cadd9                                           G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone

        Cadd9                 D             G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Why not?

Cadd9                 D              G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot


Hey hey hey

           Cadd9        D             G
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

G
Ooooh, bop bop bop

Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop

Cadd9
I don't wanna give it

Why you wanna give it

G
Why you wanna giving it all away

Hey, hey, hey

Cadd9
Now you wanna give it

I should wanna give it

G
Now you wanna giving it all away

Cadd9
I don't wanna give it

Why you wanna give it

G
Why you wanna giving it all away

Cadd9
Hey, hey, givin it all,

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givin it all....away

 G Cadd9
Why do you want me?

 G
Why do you want me?

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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot


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