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They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
Guitarist
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Painter
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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