Big Yellow Taxi Live chords by Counting Crows

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
| C majorC | G+G | C majorC  D MajorD | G+G |
| C majorC | G+G | C majorC  D MajorD | G+G |

Verse 1:
   C majorC                  G+G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
   C majorC       D MajorD            G+G
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
C majorC
Don't it always seem to go
     C majorC                 G+G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
   C majorC         D MajorD        G+G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Verse 2:
   C majorC                      G+G
They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum
     C majorC          D MajorD          G+G                       G+G
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them

Chorus:
      G+G
No, no, no, don't it always seem to go
     C majorC                 G+G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
   C majorC         D MajorD        G+G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Post-chorus:
| C majorC  D MajorD | G+G |

Verse:
  C majorC               G+G
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
          C majorC
I don't care about spots on my apples
D MajorD              G+G
Leave me the birds and the bees, please


Chorus:
G+G
Don't it always seem to go
     C majorC                 G+G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
   C majorC         D MajorD         G+G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
       C majorC         D MajorD        G+G
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot, Why not?

Solo:
| C majorC | G+G | C majorC  D MajorD | G+G |
| C majorC | G+G | C majorC  D MajorD | G+G |
G+G


Bridge:
    C majorC                     G+G
Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam
   C majorC        D MajorD       G+G
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away


Chorus:
G+G
Don't it always seem to go
     C majorC                 G+G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
   C majorC         D MajorD         G+G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
     G+G
Well, don't it always seem to go
     C majorC                 G+G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
   C majorC         D MajorD        G+G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Outro:
       C majorC         D MajorD         G+G
Why not? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
      C majorC         D MajorD         G+G
Hey-hey-hey paved paradise and put up a parking lot