PAVING PARADISE FOR BIG YELLOW TAXI
by Joni Mitchell, 1969

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
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half 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 that D.D.T. 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

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away 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

POUNDING PILLARS INTO FLOOD PLAIN and IT'S HEDGE GRABBING, THOMAS

Reader says story about building by the river reminds him of Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

listen BIG YELLOW TAXI, by Joni Mitchell live on stage, 1970

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