big yellow taxi

beau at work had this ancient joni mitchell song (which my sister usedta listen to incessantly back when i still hated "folk singers") stuck in his head today, and after he told me, so did i, especially the line that counting crows changed in their inferior cover version: "late last night, i heard a 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..."