Big Yellow Taxi — текст песни (Joni Mitchell)

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot

Don`t it always seem to go

That you don`t know what you`ve got till it`s gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot



They took all the trees and put `em in a tree museum

And then they charged all the people twenty-five bucks just to see `em

Don`t it always seem to go

That you don`t know what you`ve got till it`s gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot



Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now

Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please

Don`t it always seem to go

That you don`t know what you`ve got till it`s gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot



Don`t it always seem to go

That you don`t know what you`ve got till it`s gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot



Late last night I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man

Don`t it always seem to go

That you don`t know what you`ve got till it`s gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot



Don`t it always seem to go

That you don`t know what you`ve got till it`s gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot



Text & Musik: Joni Mitchell

(c) 1970 Siquomb Publishing Corp. (BMI)