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Joni Mitchell

Big Yellow Taxi

by Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

Biography:

Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943 in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, poet and painter. A highly influential artist, she has received eight Grammy Awards during her career, with the first coming in 1969 and the most recent in 2008. She received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, with the citation describing her as "one of the most important female recording artists of the rock era" and "a powerful influence on all artists who embrace diversity

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BIG YELLOW TAXI - Joni Mitchell


Open E tuning = open D tuning: (EADGBe = DADF#AD) + capo on 2nd
(G*: play with G- and G6-chords end on a D before the A chord
D*: play with D-, D6sus4-, C6sus2/D-chords
A*: play with A- and A6-chords)


Intro:
G - G6 - G - G6 - G - D - A - A6 - A - A6 - A
D - D6sus4 - C6sus2/D - D6sus4 3x
D - D6sus4 - C6sus2/D - D


G* G* D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
G* A* D*
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swingin' hot spot


Chorus:
Di D5/C#
Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/B 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
(Shoe pa pa pa pa
D*
Shoe pa pa pa pa)


G* G* D*
They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree mu- seum
G* A* D*
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em


Chorus:
Di D5/C#
Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/B 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
(Shoe pa pa pa pa
D*
Shoe pa pa pa pa)


G* G* D*
Hey farmer farmer, put away that D.D.- T. now
G* A* D*
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees please


Chorus:
Di D5/C#
Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/B 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
(Shoe pa pa pa pa
D*
Shoe pa pa pa pa)


G* G* D*
Late last night I heard the screendoor slam
G* A* D*
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man


Chorus:
Di D5/C#
Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/B 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
(Shoe pa pa pa pa)
Di D5/C#
I said Don't it always seem to go
Dsus4/B 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
(Shoe pa pa pa pa)
G* A* D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
(Shoe pa pa pa pa)
G* A* D*
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot //




G 555555
G6 575575
A 777777
A6 797797
D 000000
D6sus4 020100
C6sus2/D 030100
Di x5430x
D5/C# x4030x
Dsus4/B x2010x


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