JAKARTA, KOMPAS. com - "Big Yellow Taxi" merupakan lagu yang dilantunkan grup musik asal Amerika Serikat, Counting Crows.
Dibentuk pada 1991, grup ini beranggotakan tujuh orang, Adam Duritz, David Bryson, Dan Vickrey, David Immerglück, Charlie Gillingham, Jim Bogios, dan Millard Powers.
Pada 2002, Counting Crows merilis singel berjudul "Big Yellow Taxi" yang dimuat dalam album Hard Candy, dengan menggandeng artis kenamaan Vanessa Carlton.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Wind of Change - Scorpions
Berikut lirik dan chord lagu "Big Yellow Taxi" dari Counting Crows feat. Vanessa Carlton.
[Verse]
Cadd9 D/F# G G* G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Cadd9 D/F# G G* G
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
[Chorus]
G**
Don't it always seem to go
Cadd9
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
Cadd9 D/F# G G* G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
G
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Verse]
Cadd9 G G* G
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
Cadd9 G G*
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
G
No, no, no
[Chorus]
G**
Don't it always seem to go
Cadd9
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
Cadd9 D/F# G G* G
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
G
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Cadd9
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Verse]
Cadd9 G G* G
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
G Cadd9
I don't care about spots on my apples
G G*
Leave me the birds and the bees
G
Please