Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi – lyrics concerning the destruction of the environment – You don’t know what you’ve got til its gone!

Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi – lyrics concerning the destruction of the environment – You don’t know what you’ve got til its gone!

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Way back in the sixties when we were worried about the environment; we had no idea of the pace of events. What was happening then was piffling compared to what is going on now.

Our world population has gone mad. We are like a great scab spreading over the planet – necrotising humanitis – chopping, sawing, burning, ravaging, killing and destroying like there is no tomorrow.

If we carry on there won’t be!!

Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell   

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ’em

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot