youtu.be/g3g9_dnjaFY Mitchell said this about writing the song to journalist Alan McDougall in the early 1970s: 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. Thats when I sat down and wrote the song.
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