Big yellow taxi...some help

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Big yellow taxi...some help

Unread post by pele0069 » Wed May 14, 2003 8:16 am

I know its a joni mitchel song but this is what im looking at....
i cant hear the beat on hte guitar...any one know this song? wanna help out..sound clip maybe
also i was down in the Virginia beach area 93.7 "the point"kept playing a version of this song...biut i dont think it was the counting crows ...anyone know who sang that version?

Big Yellow Taxi
By: The Counting Crows
Tabbed by: Jon Micetic

Tuning
G-B-D-G-D-G capo on first fret

Intro/Verse
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
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With a pink hotel of boots you get a swingin’ hot spot
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Chorus
Don’t it always seem to go that you
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don’t know what you got till its gone
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they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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They took all the trees......

Chorus

Hey farmer, farmer put away.......

Chorus

Jam
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Listen late last night I heard the screen door sway
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And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
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Chorus X 2

Ending
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