Big Yellow Taxi — Counting Crows
Chords and lyrics for Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows (key of G#).
Intro
[G#maj7]
Verse 1
They paid paradise and put up a fucking lie With a pink hotel, a boot, you're gonna swing
in hot spot Don't it all seem to go?
That you don't [C#]know what you got till it's gone They paid paradise and [D#]put up a fucking lie
Verse 2
[G#maj7]They took all the trees [C#m]and put them [G#maj7]in a tree museum And charge the people a dollar and
a half to see them Don't [G#]it all seem [G#maj7]to go?
That you don't [C#/G#]know what you got till it's gone [C#m]They [Fm7]paid paradise and put [G#maj7]up a fucking lie
Verse 3
Hey, for my [A#m7/G#]farm [A#m]I put away a DDT [G#]I don't care about spots [Fm/G#]on [A#m]my apples
Leave me the [C#]birds and the bees [G#]Please, don't it all seem [G#maj7]to go?
That you don't [C#]know what you got till it's gone They paid paradise and put [D#]up a fucking lie
Chorus
[G#maj7]Hey, now they paid [Fm]paradise to [D#]put up a fucking lie
Interlude
[G#] [Fm] [G#] [Fm] [G#/D#] [C#]
Verse 4
Listen late last night, I heard the screen door swanning [G#]And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Now don't it always seem [G#maj7]to go? That you don't [C#]know what you got till it's gone
Verse 5
[G#]They [C]paid [C#]paradise to [G#maj7]put up a fucking lie Hey, now, now, don't it always seem to go?
That you don't [Fm]know what you got till it's gone [G#]They paid [C#]paradise to [D#]put up a fucking lie
Chorus 2
[G#maj7]Why not they paid [Fm]paradise to put [G#maj7]up a fucking lie Hey, hey, hey, paid [Fm]paradise to put [D#]up a fucking lie
Bridge
[G#]I don't wanna give it why you wanna give it why you wanna give it all away
[D#]Hey, now [G#maj7]you wanna give [D#/A#]it I should wanna give it cause [G#maj7]you're doing it all away
I don't wanna give it why you wanna [D#]give it why you [G#]wanna give it all away
Cause you're giving it all, giving [G#maj7]it all away
Outro
[Gm] [D] [C#]
Why won't you?
[D#m] [G#] [F#maj7] [Fm]
Why won't you?
She's giving [D#m]it all away
[G#]Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey [C#]Hey, [G#]hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, they paid paradise [C#]to put up a fucking lie
[D#m] [G#] [A#m] [D#] [G#] [C#] [G#] [A#m7] [G#]