Chords for Joni Mitchell ~ Big Yellow Taxi + Both Sides Now (BBC - 1969)

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_ [F#] _ _ _ I'm really in the mood to sing.
[B] _
_ Unfortunately, my pipes are kind of going now. _
[Bm] I'd stay here for another hour.
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[B] They paved paradise, put up a park, oh lord _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ With a pink hotel, [C#] a boutique and a swinging [B] hot spot
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Don't it always seem to go
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved [C#] paradise, put up a parking [F#] lot _ _ _ _
_ Now they took all the trees, put them in a tree museum
_ And [B] they charged all the people a dollar [F#] and a half [B] just to see [F#] them
I said, don't it always seem to go
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT [B] now
Give me spots on my apples, but leave [F#] me the birds and the bees _ _ _ _
_ You don't know what you've got till it's [B] gone
They paved [C#] paradise, put up a [F#] parking lot _ _ _ _
_ _ Late last night, I heard that screen door slam _
_ And a big yellow taxi [C#] come and took away my [F#] old man _
_ _ Don't it always seem to go
[B] [G#] You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved [B] paradise, put up [F#] a parking lot _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Late last night, I heard [F#] that screen door slam
[B] _ _ [F#] And a big yellow tractor [C#] come and took away my house
It took away my land
I said, don't it always seem to go
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
_ _ [B] They paved [C#] paradise, put up a [F#] parking lot
_ _ [B] They paved paradise, put up a [F#] parking [B] lot
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_ _ _ _ _ Rose and those of angel hair
Ice cream castle, oh yeah
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at cows that way
[G] But now they only block the sun
They rain [D] and snow [G] on [D] everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
Oh, _ _ _ it's now from up and down
And still somehow it's cloud [C]
illusions [G] I recall
I really don't know cloud _ _ [D] _ _ at all
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_ _ _ Moons and dunes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
Oh, I've looked at love that way
But now it's just another show
You leave them laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
No, don't give yourself away
It's _ _ _ on both sides now from give and take
And still somehow it's love's illusions I recall
Oh, I really don't know [A] love _
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Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you right out loud
_ Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that [A] way
But [G] now old friends are acting strange
They shake their [D] heads, they [G] say I've changed
Well, something's lost
But something's gained in [D] living every day
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_ _ _ _ Still somehow it's [C] life's illusions [G] I recall
Oh, I really don't know love [D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] at all _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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