BIG YELLOW TAXI
Bass solo in G with drums.................................................
                                                                       They
[Verse]
         
Paved paradise

           
 and       put

            
 up a parking 

             
lot,          

              
              

                
 With a
         
pink hotel,   

              
          a bo

             
utique, and a 

             
swingin' hot s

               
pot

[Chorus]
             
Don't it alway

         
s seem to go t

           
hat you don't 

              
know what you 

 
got 'til it's 

gone. They
         
Paved paradise

             
 and put up a 

             
parking lot. O

              
oooh, bop bop 

     
bop, Ooooh, bo

p bop bop

[Verse]
         
They took all 

              
the trees, and

         
 put ‘em in a 

             
tree museum.  

              
              

  
And they
         
charged all th

             
e people a dol

              
lar and a half

             
 just to see ‘

              
em.           

  
No, no, no

[Chorus]
             
Don't it alway

         
s seem to go, 

           
that you don't

              
 know what you

  
 got 'til it's

 gone.  They
         
Paved paradise

             
 and put up a 

             
parking lot. O

              
oooh, bop bop 

     
bop, Ooooh, bo

p bop bop, Hey

[Verse]
         
Farmer, farmer

              
, put away you

          
r DDT,   don't

            
 care about sp

          
ots on my appl

        
e just leave m

e the birds an

d the

Bees, Please

[Chorus]
             
Don't it alway

         
s seem to go, 

           
that you don't

              
 know what you

  
 got 'til it's

 gone. They
         
Paved paradise

             
 and put up a 

             
parking lot   

              
              

       
     Hey now t

hey
         
Paved paradise

             
 and put up a 

             
parking lot. O

              
oooh, bop bop 

     
bop, Ooooh, bo

p bop bop,

[Solo]
                                                      
                                         (sustained)

[Bridge]
          
Late last nigh

              
t, I heard the

              
 screen door s

             
lam        And

         
 a big yellow 

             
taxi took my g

      
irl away

[Chorus]
             
Don't it alway

         
s seem to go, 

           
that you don't

              
 know what you

  
 got 'til it's

 gone.  They
         
Paved paradise

             
 and put up a 

                           
parking lot.
             
Don't it alway

         
s seem to go, 

           
that you don't

              
 know what you

  
 got 'til it's

 gone.  They
         
Paved paradise

             
 and put up a 

             
parking lot.  

              
              

           
          Hey 


hey hey
         
They paved par

             
adise and put 

              
up a parking l

             
ot, Ooooh, bop

          
 bop bop, Oooo


h, bop bop bop

,

[Outro]
           
I don't wanna 

              
give it, Why y

              
ou wanna give 

    
it, giving it 

all away, Hey,

 hey, hey
           
Why you wanna 

              
give it, why y

              
ou wanna give 

    
it, giving it 

all away, Hey,

 hey, hey,
Repeat
         
They paved par

             
adise and put 

              
up a parking l


ot