Big Yellow Taxi

"Big Yellow Taxi"
Side A of 1970 Canadian single
Single by Joni Mitchell
from the album Ladies of the Canyon
B-side	"Woodstock"
Released	April 1970
Recorded	1970
Genre	Folk rock[1] pop folk[2]
Length	2:16
Label	Reprise
Songwriter(s)	Joni Mitchell
Producer(s)	Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell singles chronology
"Chelsea Morning" (1969) "Big Yellow Taxi" (1970) "Carey" (1971)
Official Lyric Video
"Big Yellow Taxi" on YouTube

"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970, and originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon. It was a hit in her native Canada (No. 15) as well as Australia (No. 6) and the UK (No. 11). It only reached No. 67 in the US in 1970, but was later a bigger hit there for her in a live version released in 1974, which peaked at No. 24. Charting versions have also been recorded by the Neighborhood (who had the original top US 40 hit with the track in 1970, peaking at No. 29), and most notably by Amy Grant in 1995 and Counting Crows in 2002. The song was also sampled in Janet Jackson's "Got 'til It's Gone" (1997).