Music on Sundays: Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
Milieuzorg is niets nieuw en zo’n 45 jaar geleden schreef en zong Joni Mitchell er een mooie song over. De natuur versus menselijke ingrepen met steen, asfalt en beton. Joni werd geboren in 1943 en schreef deze song in 1970.
Het is meer dan ooit actueel. Alleen is DDT nu vervangen door Round-Up.
Het is een zogenaamde ‘green song’ zoals Neil Young er ook schreef en zingt. De bezorgdheid voor natuur en milieu en de zorg voor de toekomst van de planeet staan hierbij centraal.
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And they put up a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer
Put away that D.D.T. now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Mitchell in een interview in 1996 met The Los Angeles Times: "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."
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