From: David Searle [david_searle@btinternet.com]
Sent: 18 January 2008 14:21
To: worplesdon@cognosco.ltd.uk
Subject: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Dan,
 
Here is the song "Big yellow taxi cab"
Original lyrics by Joni Mitchell. This version performed by Bob Dylan who altered the final verse which is more apt:
 
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot,
A big hotel, a boutique,
And a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always go to show
You'll never know what you got till it's gone?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.
 
 They took all the trees, they put 'em in a tree museum.
They charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Don't it always go to show
You'll never know what you got till it's gone?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.

Hey, farmer, farmer, put away that D.D.T.!
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees, please!
Don't it always go to show You'll never know what you got till it's gone?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.

Late last night I heard my screen door slam.
A big yellow bulldozer took away the house and the land.
Don't it always go to show
You'll never know what you got till it's gone?
They paved paradise, they put up a parking lot.

Perhaps we ought to add this to the website...