Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique

And swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go

But you don't know what you've got

'Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees

And put them in a tree museum

And they charged all the people

25 bucks just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

'Till it's gone

They paved paradise

Put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer

Put away your D.D.T. now

Give me spots on my apples

But leave me the birds and the bees

Please!

Dont it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

'Till it's gone

They paved paradise

When you put up a parking lot

I said you pave paradise

When you put up a parking lot

Dont it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

'Till it's gone

Pave paradise

When you put up a parking lot

Late last night

I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi

Carried off my old man

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

Pave paradise

When you put up a parking lot

Dont it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

'Till it's gone

They pave paradise

Put up a parking lot

Oh na now then a pave paradise

Put up a parking lot

Hey steam rolled paradise

You put a parking lot