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