Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell (acoustic) - video Dailymotion

Joni Mitchell: At Isle of Wight Festival At Afton Down, Freshwater, England  August 29, 1970

Transcript

00:00I'm going to jump in here.

00:02Oh, Ruby!

00:30It's gone.

00:30They paid paradise, put up a parking lot.

00:38They took all the trees, put them in a tree museum.

00:44And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them.

00:50Don't it always seem to go?

00:53You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

00:55They paid paradise, put up a parking lot.

01:00Hey, farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now.

01:09Give me spots on my apples, leave me the birds and the bees.

01:14Hey, it's gone.

01:16It always seemed to go.

01:18You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

01:21They paid paradise, put up a parking lot.

01:24Late last night, I heard that screen door slam.

01:34And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.

01:39Don't it always seem to go?

01:41Don't it always seem to go?

01:43You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

01:46They paid paradise, put up a parking lot.

01:54Late last night, I heard that screen door slam again.

01:58And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.

02:03And a big yellow taxi took away my old man again.

02:05Oh, don't it always seem to go?

02:07Don't it always seem to go?

02:08You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

02:10They paid paradise, put up a parking lot.

02:14They paid paradise, put up a parking lot.

02:17They paid paradise, put up a parking lot.

02:21They paid paradise, put up a parking lot.