Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows (Ft. Vanessa Carlton)
Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows (Ft. Vanessa Carlton)

Big Yellow Taxi

Counting Crows & Vanessa Carlton * Track #14 On Hard Candy

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Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows (Ft. Vanessa Carlton)

Release Date
Mon Jul 08 2002
Performed by
Counting CrowsVanessa Carlton
Produced by
Steve Lillywhite
Writed by
Joni Mitchell
About

“Big Yellow Taxi” is a cover of Joni Mitchell’s 1970 hit of the same name. It was featured on Counting Crows 4th album Hard Candy and their greatest hits album Films About Ghosts (The Best Of…).

Counting Crows' cover of the song is the most successful to date, peaking at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard...

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Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics

[Verse 1: Adam Duritz]
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot

[Chorus: Adam Duritz]
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Post-Chorus: Vanessa Carlton]
Ooh, bop-bop-bop
Ooh, bop-bop-bop

[Verse 2: Adam Duritz]
They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no

[Chorus: Adam Duritz]
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Post-Chorus: Vanessa Carlton]
Ooh, bop-bop-bop
Ooh, bop-bop-bop

[Verse 3: Adam Duritz]
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples, leave me the birds and the bees
Please

[Chorus: Adam Duritz]
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot

[Post-Chorus: Vanessa Carlton]
Ooh, bop-bop-bop
Ooh, bop-bop-bop

[Musical Interlude]

[Bridge: Adam Duritz]
Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away

[Chorus: Adam Duritz]
Now, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey-na-na, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Why not? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey, hey, hey, paved paradise and put up a parking lot

[Post-Chorus: Vanessa Carlton]
Ooh, bop-bop-bop
Ooh, bop-bop-bop

[Bridge: Adam Duritz, Adam Duritz & Vanessa Carlton]
I don't wanna give it, why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it, I should wanna give it
'Cause you wanna giving it all away
No, no
I don't wanna give it, why you wanna give it
Why you wanna give it all away
'Cause you're giving it all, giving it all away
Yeah, yeah

[Outro: Vanessa Carlton & Adam Duritz]
Why do you want me?
Why do you want to?
'Cause you're givin' it all away, hey, hey, hey
La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la
Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot
La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

Big Yellow Taxi Q&A

Who wrote Big Yellow Taxi's ?

Big Yellow Taxi was written by Joni Mitchell.

Who produced Big Yellow Taxi's ?

Big Yellow Taxi was produced by Steve Lillywhite.

When did Counting Crows release Big Yellow Taxi?

Counting Crows released Big Yellow Taxi on Mon Jul 08 2002.

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