Big Yellow Taxi Live chords by Counting Crows

Intro:
| C | G | C  D | G |
| C | G | C  D | G |

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

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


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

Post-chorus:
| C  D | G |

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


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


Solo:
| C | G | C  D | G |
| C | G | C  D | G |
G


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


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

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