Yep, I know you were expecting Big Yellow Taxi, but this song is about the same thing: destroying something precious that can't be replaced. In this case, it is Moore Street in Dublin and the Paris Bakery there. The plan is to build another shopping mall and destroy an historic, cosmopolitan and thriving part of Dublin. More details here.
Well, here are the lyrics in case your interested. Feel free to put Joni's version in instead!
C hammer on 2 on G, D hammer on 2 on A, G hammer on 5 on G
C G
NAMA paved Moore Street, put in a parking lot,
C D G
Shut down the bakery, so some guy could buy himself a yacht
CHORUS
G (7775)
Don't it always seem to go
C (5543) G
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
C D G
NAMA paved Moore Street, put in a parking lot
G 7775
(Choo bop bop bop bop, choo bop bop bop bop)
C G
They took all the buildings, put 'em in a big museum
C D G
Then they charged all the people €19.16 just to see 'em
G (7775)
Don't it always seem to go
C (5543) G
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
C D G
NAMA paved Moore Street, put in a parking lot
G 7775
(Choo bop bop bop bop, choo bop bop bop bop)
C G
Hey Dublin City Council, put away those Bored Pleanalas now,
C D G
Give me stalls full of apples and leave the Paris Bakery,
Please,
G (7775)
Don't it always seem to go
C (5543) G
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
C D G
NAMA paved Moore Street, put in a parking lot
G 7775
(Choo bop bop bop bop, choo bop bop bop bop)
C G
Late last night, I heard a wrecking ball,
C D G
and a big yellow lorry, took away the market stalls
G (7775)
Don't it always seem to go
C (5543) G
That you don't know what you had till it's gone
C D G
NAMA paved Moore Street, put in a parking lot
C D G
NAMA paved Moore Street, put in a parking lot
C D G
NAMA paved Moore Street, put in a parking lot
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