Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That 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
'em in a tree museum
And then they charged the people a
Dollar-and-a half 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 and put up a parking lot

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now
Give me spots on my apples but leave
Me the birds and the bees, please

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've
Got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Late last night I heard the 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?
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

I said, 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
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot