song: Big Yellow Taxi
artist: Joni Mitchell
album: Ladies of the Canyon (1970)
writer: Joni Mitchell

steel-stringed acoustic guitar: Joni Mitchell

" 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." - Joni Mitchell