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Big Yellow Taxi
Counting Crows
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Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
Tuning: Standard (EADGBe), Capo 1st Fret
Chords:
G          -  320033
Cadd9      -  x32033
D/F#       -  200233
Intro
Cadd9    G
     Cadd9	        D/F#	   	  G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
       Cadd9	     D/F#   		      G
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
G               D/F#
Don't it always seem to go
	 Cadd9                             G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
     Cadd9	        D/F#   	         G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
G
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop
     Cadd9		     D/F#	       G
They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum
         Cadd9		      D/F#           	       G
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no
G               D/F#
Don't it always seem to go
	 Cadd9                             G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
     Cadd9	        D/F#   	         G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
G
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop
    Cadd9	    D/F#            G
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
	           Cadd9
I don't care about spots on my apples
D/F#			   G
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please
G               D/F#
Don't it always seem to go
	 Cadd9                             G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
     Cadd9	        D/F#   	         G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
		      Cadd9     D/F#		 G
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
G
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Solo
[Cadd9 � G] x3  Cadd9   D/F#  Cadd9 (let ring)
						 G
Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam
      Cadd9	      D/F#	    G
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
    G               D/F#
Now don't it always seem to go
	 Cadd9                             G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
     Cadd9	        D/F#   	         G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey, now, now
G               D/F#
Don't it always seem to go
	 Cadd9                             G
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
     Cadd9	        D/F#   	         G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Why not?
     Cadd9		D/F#	   	 G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey
Cadd9		   D/F#	   	    G
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot
G
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
	      G
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Cadd9
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
	G
Just to giving it all away
Now, now
Cadd9
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
	      G
Why you wanna giving it all away
	     Cadd9
Girl, you're giving it all,
D/F#	          G			Cadd9
giving it all....away
           G				Cadd9
Why do you want me?
	   G                            Cadd9           
Why do you want me?
G
la la la la la la la la la la la la
     Cadd9	       D/F#	   	G
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Cadd9 � G (fade out) 
 
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