They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot

[nebula]

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Joni Mitchell (from a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times): "I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawai'i. 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."

[HereSince1628]

1. All us oldies have the memory . . . .they put up a car dealership on the

site of the old Poplar Brook farm and in the process completely destroyed all architectural records of my first, ah, shall we say romance?

You never get to go back.

[Pharaoh]

2. Kickin for Joni.......

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