<P> "Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer - songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970, and originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon . It was a hit in her native Canada (No. 14) as well as Australia (No. 6) and the UK (No. 11). It only reached No. 67 in the US in 1970, but was later a bigger hit there for her in a live version released in 1974, which peaked at No. 24 . Charting versions have also been recorded by The Neighborhood (who had the original top US 40 hit with the track in 1970, peaking at No. 29), Maire Brennan, Amy Grant and Counting Crows . </P> <P> Mitchell said this about writing the song to journalist Alan McDougall in the early 1970s: </P> <P> I wrote' Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii . I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance . Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart...this blight on paradise . That's when I sat down and wrote the song . </P> <P> The song is known for its environmental concern--"They paved paradise to put up a parking lot" and "Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now"--and sentimental sound . The line "They took all the trees, and put' em in a tree museum / And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see' em" refers to Foster Botanical Garden in downtown Honolulu, which is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered . </P>

Song take paradise and put up a parking lot
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