I came up with a catchy little jingle to put the spotlight on our Local government wanting to do things like: build bike trails instead of fixing the streets.
It's based on a Folk Song made famous by Judy Collins, Big Yellow Taxi, so I dedided to name this one Big Blue Taxi of course 'Don't it always seem to go" is used in the original and this version,
Am I not truly Evil to use one of the ultimate Eco-activist songs for this? New agers will be making ths Sign of the Pentacle when they see me and getting
their children to behave by saying Dan Kauffman will come and get bad little boys and girls who do not recycle and eat all their vegan dinners.
Or should that be "unsocially educated vertically challenged genderfree persons" ??
They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot
They built a Bike Trail but left all the Streets Full of Ruts
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Made a Green Zone,with an Organic Cafe and a Fung Shui Meditaton Spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
Their Tax Increase never Ends
They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot
They built a Bike Trail but left all the Streets Full of Ruts
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
They planted the blocks all with Trees
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
Raised the Sales Tax one percent for Urban Farms for the Bees
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
Their Tax Increase never Ends
They paved paradise, and put up a parkin' lot
They built a Bike Trail but left all the Streets Full of Ruts
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
Hey City Hall leave our Wallets Alone
I don't care about spots on my apples,
You keep Raising Taxes
Leave me the birds and the bees - please
We'll have nothing left of Our Own
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
Their Tax Increase never Ends
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
They built a Bike Trail but left all the Streets Full of Ruts
Hey now, they've paved paradise to put up a parking lot
They'll build Bike Trails but leave the Streets Full of Ruts
Here is the orginal
Posted by ky/kentuckydan
at 4:55 PM CDT
Updated: Tuesday, 7 June 2011 9:57 PM CDT
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Updated: Tuesday, 7 June 2011 9:57 PM CDT
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