Rise Up Singing: Big Yellow Taxi

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Uploaded by on Apr 15, 2009

By Joni Mitchell
Rise Up Singing chapter: Ecology, p.34
(In the key of G)
C - G - / C D G - / - - C FG / C D G -

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 got til it's gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em

Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees (please!)

Late last night, I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man

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  • Nice. What brand/model is your guitar? I've been looking for a smaller guitar for a while and that looks cool.

  • @cinemaparadisso I've played two guitars like this. the one in the video is a Kapok brand, which is Chinese. I bought it in Chengdu for 300 yuan (about 44 USD) I think. Maybe 350 yuan. The other one is a Skylark brand. We didn't buy it, though; my mother or my brother got it second hand somewhere. I just went to the Skylark company's website, though, and couldn't find any small nylon string guitars in their catalogue. I guess that's about all I can tell you. Happy hunting.

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  • umm ok i guess

  • So good - the song & your version :)

    Thanks!

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