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pele0069
05-14-2003, 11:05 AM
I know its a joni mitchel song but this is what im looking at....
i cant hear the beat on hte guitar...any one know this song? wanna help out..sound clip maybe
also i was down in the Virginia beach area 93.7 "the point"kept playing a version of this song...biut i dont think it was the counting crows ...anyone know who sang that version?

Big Yellow Taxi
By: The Counting Crows
Tabbed by: Jon Micetic

Tuning
G-B-D-G-D-G capo on first fret

Intro/Verse
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
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With a pink hotel of boots you get a swingin’ hot spot
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Chorus
Don’t it always seem to go that you
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don’t know what you got till its gone
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they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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They took all the trees......

Chorus

Hey farmer, farmer put away.......

Chorus

Jam
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Listen late last night I heard the screen door sway
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And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
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Chorus X 2

Ending
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pele0069
05-14-2003, 08:20 PM
if anyone cares i figured it out....well my own version

jclark
05-14-2003, 08:42 PM
it is counting crows, but that tab is the joni mitchell one, just goto www.annabegins.com and goto the tab section and find the tab they use, you dont have to detune or anything to play it

ITakeTwoSteps
05-14-2003, 09:39 PM
get the latest issue of guitar world acoustic. its in there.

Firedncin8nancy
05-15-2003, 04:21 PM
can anyone transcribe that for me? id run out and get it but im at school and we have NO places to get magazines here... freakin University of Maryland