Big yellow taxi – joni mitchell
We
talk,
argue,
we deny
the damage, the destruction
being done to our environment.
There are
learned people on
either side of the debate,
some honest some dishonest
who cannot come to a consensus.
And all the while the destruction keeps going on, reminding me these lines
“…don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got, till it’s gone…”
from a song by Joni Mitchell,
a singer, songwriter and painter from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Big yellow taxi – joni mitchell
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spotDon’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 lotThey took all the trees put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see ’emHey farmer farmer put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees
Please!Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.
The song was first released as a single in 1970,
and then was put on the album Ladies of the Canyon.
life
environment
lyrics
bendtherulz said this on May 30th, 2007 at 06:03
How true – India is one such place where things are mushrooming with such scant regard to environment…city is choking…and all of us just see.
I have this song -a version by Counting Crows though.
flowerchild said this on June 3rd, 2007 at 17:43
heyy little indian 😀
I’ve heard this song too, but the counting crows version.
“…don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got, till it’s gone…”
So true……
little indian said this on June 3rd, 2007 at 23:13
Hiya,
We are both showing our age here. 🙂
Joni Mitchell has written many lovely songs.
A true hippie.