Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise, put up a parking 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've got 'til it's gone
 They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
 (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
 They took all the trees put 'em in a tree museum
 And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em
 Don't it always seem to go
 That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
 They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
 (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
 Hey farmer, farmer put away that 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 'til it's gone
 They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
 (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
 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 'til it's gone
 They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
 I said don't it always seem to go
 That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
 They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
 They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)
 They paved paradise
 Put up a parking lot