Big Yellow Taxi Chords
Big Yellow Taxi by Pinhead Gunpowder is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, E, A, A5, E5, G5, D5, B5 and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro D E A
B5(Abafado) A5
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
B5(Abafado) A5
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot...
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A5 E5
Don't it always seem to go
G5 D5
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? } Refrão
B5 D5 A5 /
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. /
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B5 A5
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum
B5 A5
And they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em...
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B5 A5
Hey farmer farmer put away that DDT now.
B5 A5
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
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B A
Late last night I heard a screen door slam,
B A
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man...
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B5 D5 A5
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
B5 D5 A5
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.