【歌詞翻譯】Big Yellow Taxi

一首自從DDT出現之後歷久不衰的歌，Joni Mitchell 原唱，Amy Grant、Counting Crows 也唱過。

歷久不衰，是因為即使到了21世紀，這首歌的意義還是像新的一樣。

Joni Mitchell 分享她創作靈感：

「第一次去夏威夷時，我是搭計程車到飯店。第二天早上起來，我拉開窗簾，看到遠處美麗的青色山脈，從窗戶往下看到的卻是綿延不絕的停車場，這景象讓炫目的美景蒙上一層陰影...使我心碎。」

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.

（資料來源：維基百科）

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell 版本：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20

Counting Crows 版本：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs8IDgU

歌詞

They paved paradise 

And put up a parking lot 

With a pink hotel, a boutique 

And a swinging hot SPOT

他們鋪設天堂般的美景

蓋了一座停車場

一間漂亮的飯店和精品店

還有時髦新潮的熱鬧商圈

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got 

‘Til it's gone 

They paved paradise 

And put up a parking lot

似乎總是

得等到失去的時候

才知道曾經擁有的珍貴

他們鋪設天堂般的美景

蓋了一座停車場

They took all the trees 

And put them in a tree museum 

Then they charged the people

A dollar and a half just to see 'em

他們砍光所有的樹

放進博物館裡

向所有進來參觀的人

收取一塊五的入場費

Don't it always seem to go,

That you don't know what you've got

‘Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

似乎總是

得等到失去的時候

才知道曾經擁有的珍貴

他們鋪設天堂般的美景

蓋了一座停車場

Hey farmer, farmer

Put away that DDT now

Give me spots on my apples

But LEAVE me the birds and the bees

Please!

親愛的農夫阿

別再用DDT了

蘋果醜醜的沒關係

但請別對鳥兒和蜜蜂趕盡殺絕

拜託你們了！

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

‘Til its goneThey paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

似乎總是

得等到失去的時候

才知道曾經擁有的珍貴

他們鋪設天堂般的美景

蓋了一座停車場

Late last night

I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi

Come and took away my old man

昨晚深夜裡

我聽見紗門碰的一聲關上

一台黃色大計程車

接走了我老爸

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

‘Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

似乎總是

得等到失去的時候

才知道曾經擁有的珍貴

他們鋪設天堂般的美景

卻蓋了一座停車場

I said

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

‘Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

就是這樣

我們似乎總是

得等到失去的時候

才知道曾經擁有的珍貴

他們鋪設天堂般的美景

卻蓋了一座停車場

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

他們鋪設天堂般的美景

卻蓋了一座停車場

他們鋪設天堂般的美景

卻蓋了一座停車場