Big Yellow Taxi

Big Yellow Taxi (Revised)     Counting Crows  (Joni Mitchell)                  tabbed by the chadster08012  
  
NORMAL TUNING~~No need for wacked out tuning      CAPO FIRST FRET,                   PINKY DOWN ON ALL D?s  
  
G BARRE                             OPEN G                                            
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot  
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot  
G              D   
Don't it always seem to go   
       C9                                     G  
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?  
C9                         D              G  
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.   

OPEN G                             BARRE G  
Ooooh, bop bop bop,   Ooooh, bop bop bop  
G C9                                        C9 G                                      
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum  
G C9                         C9 D                      D G  
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them  
No, no, no  

Chorus 
  
Ooooh, bop bop bop,,      Ooooh, bop bop bop  
C9                                 G  
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT  
                    C9  
I don't care about spots on my apples,  
                            G  
Leave me the birds and the bees  
Please  
G                 D  
Don't it always seem to go  
      C9                                    G  
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone  
C9                                       D                   G  
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot  
         C9                       D               G  
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot.  
Why not?  
  
Ooooh, bop bop bop,    Ooooh, bop bop bop  
                                             G      Harmonic 5th  
Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam  
        C9             D             G  
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away  
G                 D  

Don't it always seem to go  
     C9                                      G  
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? 
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.  
Well, 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.   
  
Ooooh, bop bop bop,    Ooooh, bop bop bop  
         C9  
I don't wanna give it  
Why you wanna give it  
                G  
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