Guitar Tab for Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
Found on:
The Asylum Albums (1972–1975)(2022-09-23)
The Asylum Albums (1972-1975)(2022-09-23)
Archives - Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968–1971)(2021-11-12)
Don't Interrupt The Sorrow Joni Mitchell Recordings(2021-08-27)
The Reprise Albums (1968–1971)(2021-06-25)
A Ladies Man in Holland(2021-05-07)
Big Yellow Taxi (2021 remaster)(2021-04-22)
Smooth Rock: Yacht Rock, Easy Listening and Rock Ballads(2020-06-12)
100 Greatest Soft Rock Anthems Ever..(2020-04-10)
Brass in Pocket: The 70s All Over(2020-03-20)
70s Top Hits(2020-03-20)
70s Radio Hits(2020-03-20)
The Super Seventies(2020-03-13)
Simply the Best: American Pop(2020-03-13)
Carnegie Hall 1972 (The New York Broadcast)(2020)
Everything I Own: Soft Rock 70s(2019-12-13)
Chilled Guitar(2019-08-23)
Forever Favorites(2019-05-03)
100 Greatest Summer Songs(2019-04-05)
Hits of the 70s(2019-03-15)
100 Greatest Acoustic Songs(2019-03-15)
Both Sides Now: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970(2017)
A Woman In The East (The 1983 Tokyo Broadcast)(2015)
Transmission Impossible (Legendary Broadcasts From 1960s - 1990s)(2015)
Summertime Mixtape Vol. 5(2014-06-21)
The Studio Albums: 1968–1979(2013-02-12)
Amchitka: The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace(2009-11)
Shine(2007-09-25)
Absolute Acoustic(2006-11)
Dreamland(2004)
Painting With Words And Music(1999-03-30)
Big Yellow Taxi(1999)
Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival 1970(1996-10-29)
Big Yellow Taxi(1996-01-09)
Hits(1996)
Ladies of the Canyon(1996)
Isle of Wight 1970(1995)
Friends(1995)
Woodstock Generation(1995)
The Earth Day Album(1991)
Miles of Aisles(1990)
The World of Joni Mitchell(1989)
Superstars of the 70s(1973)
Live Concerts 1972 & 1973(1973)
(Kept By) Her Own Devices(1972)
Live at the BBC 1972(1972)
4(1971)
The Big Ball(1970)
1972-02-16: Paramount Northwest Theatre, Seattle, WA, USA
Woodstock Flower Power
Joni Mitchell
Woodstock Generation
Ghosts
50 Hits of the Sixties and of Woodstock Generation
1972-02-23: New York, NY, USA
Live at Red Rocks
Live at Wembley Arena, 4/24/83
1974-03-24: Cameron Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
1998-05-22: Pauley Pavillion, Inglewood, CA, USA
1983-02-28: Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Friends: The Complete Series
Live at Wembley Arena
Summer Hits Of The 70's
The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)
Spotify Playlist
BIG YELLOW TAXI- Joni Mitchell
TUNING: E B E Ab B E
A Asus4 A Asus4 A B Bsus4 B Bsus4 B E Esus4 E Esus4 E
A E Esus4 E Esus4 E
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
A B E
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swingin' hot spot
CHORUS:
E
Don't it always seem to go
A (n.C.)
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
A B E
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Esus4 E Esus4 E Esus4 E Esus4 E
(Choo bop bop bop bop, choo bop bop bop bop)
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
CHORUS
Hey farmer farmer, put away that D.D.T. now
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees
please
CHORUS
Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man
CHORUS TWICE (with only one chooo bop... at each end)
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (choo bop bop bop bop)
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
E A B Esus4 Asus4 Bsus4
E --0----5----7----0----5----7-----|
B --0----5----7----0----5----7-----|
G# --0----5----7----1----6----8-----|
E --0----5----7----0----5----7-----|
B --0----5----7----2----7----9-----|
E --0----5----7----0----0----7-----|
NOTE: I don't actually know if these chords are "sus" chords, but I had
to call them something! Also, on the first two lines of the chorus and
frequently on the verse, it is better to somewhat muffle the chords so
that the rhythm can be heard but the actual notes barely heard. Also,
the song can be played in regular tuning with the same chords, but I
think it sounds much better this way (and this is what J.M. actually does).
Also, please post if you know any J.M. songs in their actual
tuning. I hear that of all her guitar songs, she only did around
two of them in standard tuning!
(from Ladies of the Canyon, 1970)
(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)
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