Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi

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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot


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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


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
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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
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I don't care about spots on my apples
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Leave me the birds and the bees

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


Why not?
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Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop


Solo
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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


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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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Well, don't it always seem to go
        Cadd9                       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


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


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Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
I don't wanna give it

Why you wanna give it
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Why you wanna giving it all away

Hey, hey, hey
Cadd9
Now you wanna give it

I should wanna give it
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Now you wanna giving it all away
Cadd9
I don't wanna give it

Why you wanna give it
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Why you wanna giving it all away
        Cadd9
Hey, hey, givin it all,
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givin it all....away
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Why do you want me?
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Why do you want me?
Cadd9                  D                   G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot


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