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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Big Yellow Taxi</h1>
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  15
  16 <p>Written by Joni Mitchell (see
  17 <a class="url" href="http://www.jmdl.com/guitar/quickglance.cfm">http://www.jmdl.com/guitar/quickglance.cfm</a> for various
  18 alternatives to Joni's own version)<br />
  19 Recorded by Bob Dylan June 4, 1970 and released by Columbia on
  20 <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Dylan</a> (1973)<br />
  21 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  26 G
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  28      C                                     G
  29 They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot
  30   D                                         G
  31 A pink hotel, a boutique an' a swingin' hot spot
  32                 Bm
  33 Don't it always go to show
  34     C                                 G
  35 You never know what you got till it's gone
  36      C         D          C          D        G
  37 They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
  38
  39 They took all the trees, they put them in a tree museum
  40 They charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em
  41 Don't it always go to show
  42 You never know what you got till it's gone
  43 They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
  44
  45 Hey farmer, farmer put away that D.D.T.
  46 Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds an' the bees, please
  47 Don't it always go to show
  48 You never know what you got till it's gone
  49 They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
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  51 Late last nite I heard my screen door slam
  52 A big yellow bulldozer took away the house an' land
  53 Don't it always go to show
  54 You never know what you got till it's gone
  55 They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
  56 They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
  57 They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
  58 They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
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