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  
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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 
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And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them 
No, no, no 
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 
 
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