Big Yellow Taxi
A collection of illustrations commissioned by Denis Donnelly for The Gettin’ Higher Choir and Wavelengths Community Choir Jan. 2021 Zoom concert.
Title card
They paved paradise...
...put up a parking lot.
with a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot.
Don't it always seem to go,
you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
They paved paradise,
put up a parking lot.
Hey farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now.
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees.
They took all the trees,
And they charged the people
A dollar and half just to see 'em.
Don't it always seem to go,
You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
Late last night, I heard the screen door slam.
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.