Big Yellow Taxi

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

-4   5     6  6 -6
They paved paradise
5   6  6 -6  -6  -3
put up a parking lot
-4  -4 5    6  -6 -4 -4  -6
With a pink hotel, a boutique
-6 -6 -7  -6   6   6
And a swinging hot spot

-8    -8 -8  -7 7    -7 -8
Don't it always seem to go
6    6   7     -7   -6   6      5
That you don't know what you've got
5    6    -3
Till it's gone
-4   5     6  6 -6
They paved paradise
-4  -4  -6 -6 -7 -6  6
And put up a parking lot

-4   5    6   6   -6
They took all the trees
-4   5   5 6 6   -6 -6 -3   
Put 'em in a tree museum
-4  -4   5       6   -6 -6
And they charged the people
-4 -4    -6 -6 -6   -7   -6 6    6
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

-8    -8 -8  -7 7    -7 -8
Don't it always seem to go
6    6   7     -7   -6   6      5
That you don't know what you've got
5    6    -3
Till it's gone
-4   5     6  6 -6
They paved paradise
-4  -4  -6 -6 -7 -6  6
And put up a parking lot

5   6  6   -6 -6
Hey farmer farmer
5   6  6  6  -6 -6 -6 -3
Put away that D.D.T. now
-4   -4  5    6  6  -6 -6
Give me spots on my apples
-4  -4    -4 -6  -6    -7  -6  6
But leave me the birds and the bees

-8    -8 -8  -7 7    -7 -8
Don't it always seem to go
6    6   7     -7   -6   6      5
That you don't know what you've got
5    6    -3
Till it's gone
-4   5     6  6 -6
They paved paradise
-4  -4  -6 -6 -7 -6  6
And put up a parking lot

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound