Sonora.ID - Berikut ini lirik dan chord/kunci gitar 'Big Yellow Taxi' milik Joni Mitchell yang dirilis pada tahun 1970.

[Intro]

G      G      A      A

D7     D7     D7     D7

[Verse 1]

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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

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with a pink hotel, a boutique and a swingin' hot spot.

[Chorus]

D               Dmaj7

Don't it always seem to go

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that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

     G                  A                D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

[Interlude]

D

[Verse 2]

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They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum

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and they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em.

[Chorus]

D               Dmaj7

Don't it always seem to go

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that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

     G                  A                D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

[Interlude]

D

[Verse 3]

G                                     D

Hey farmer, farmer, put away that D.D.T. now,

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

[Chorus 3]

D               Dmaj7

Don't it always seem to go

         G/D                                  D

that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

     G                  A                D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

[Interlude]

D

[Verse 4]

G                                       D

Late last night I heard the screen door slam

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and a big yellow taxi took away my old man

[Chorus]

D               Dmaj7

Don't it always seem to go

         G/D                                  D

that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

     G                  A                D     D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

D               Dmaj7

Don't it always seem to go

         G/D                                  D

that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

     G                  A                D

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

[Outro]

D         G               A                D

Yeah they paved paradise, put up a parking lot

D           G               A                D

I said they paved paradise, put up a parking lot