Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell cover) Lyrics
A pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot
Don't it always go to show
You never know what you got till it's gone?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
They charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them
Don't it always go to show
You never know what you got till it's gone?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
Give me spots on my apples but leave the birds and the bees, please
Don't it always go to show
You never know what you got till it's gone?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
A big yellow bulldozer took away the house and land
Don't it always go to show
You never know what you got till it's gone?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
Didn't Joni Mitchell write this song?
yeah Joni Mitchell wrote it
unless Dylan changed the lyrics when he did it, they are wrong. How did big yellow bulldozer get into the song if its called "Big Yellow Taxi" ?
yeah...dylan definitely didn't write this.
yeah sure it seems like the lyrics r wrong compared to the original. but thats how dylan sings it in his. personally i prefer his lyrics.
Counting crows re did it i like it a lot its very pretty n the poetry is good!
They called Joni Mitchell the female Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell said I don't think anyone calls Bob Dylan the male Joni Mitchell
Mitchell wrote it, and Dylan Rewrote it and released it in '73 on DYLAN.
I love them both.
Joni apparently likes Bob's verse too... in all her performances of the song after Dylan's version came out, she sings the original "a big yellow taxi took away my old man" verse, and then she sings one that says "a big yellow tractor took away my house, it took away my land." There's even one performance on YouTube (from her "Painting with Words and Music" DVD) where she says "Bob Dylan wrote this verse" and then sings it in a comical nasally Dylan voice.
I have no input on the song.
However, I just wanted to add, you know it is a good song if BOB DYLAN covers it!