Big Yellow Taxi  
Recorded by: The Counting Crows  
Tabbed by: Jon Micetic  
  
Tuning  
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Intro/Verse  
They've paved paradise to put up a parking lot  
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With a pink hotel of boots you get a swingin' hot spot.  
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[Refrão]
 
Don't it always seem to go that you   
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don't know what you got till it's gone? 
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They've paved paradise and put up a parking lot.  
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They took all the trees ... . 
  
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Hey farmer, farmer put away ... .  
  
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Listen late last night I heard the screen door sway  
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And a big yellow taxi took my girl away  
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Chorus X 2  
  
Ending  
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