The lyrics are, “They paved paradise, And put up a parking lot…”(1)
Joni Mitchell and her friends wanted to change the direction of the world and save the environment. The song goes on to blame us, humans, for the destruction of, well, everything.
Then, my wife found this melon/gourd plant, a bumper crop from a rotted gourd that I didn’t clean up last year and growing on it’s own impervious to the environment.
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From your grumpy Uncle Dave, Joni got it wrong.
- Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”, Ladies of the Canyon, (1970)
Listen here: https://genius.com/Joni-mitchell-big-yellow-taxi-lyrics