Lyrics Variations
There are various slight alterations of the lyrics from different versions. Joni Mitchell's original version runs
They took all the treesAnd put them in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
while in Amy Grant's version, the people are charged "twenty-five bucks", and in Joni Mitchell's 2007 re-recording the people are charged "an arm and a leg".
Bob Dylan instead of singing about the "big yellow taxi" that "took away my old man" sings "A big yellow bulldozer took away the house and land". While Amy Grant retains the taxi, her final reprise of the line about "paved paradise" reads "steam rolled paradise".
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