Big Yellow Taxi

Well, it's a paved paradise
 They put up a parking lot
 With a big hotel, a boutique
 And a swinging hot spot
 Now 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
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 They took all the trees
 Put them in a tree museum
 Then they charged the people
 Dollar and a half just to see 'em
 And don't it always seem to go
 That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
 And they paved paradise, put up a parking lot
 Hey, farmer, farmer
 Put away that D.D.T. now
 Give me the spots on my apples
 But leave me the birds and the bees, please
 Now don't it always seem to go
 That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
 They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
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 Well, late last night
 She heard the screen door slam
 And the big yellow taxi
 Took away her old man, how about that?
 Well, don't it always seem to go
 That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
 And they paved paradise, put up a parking lot
 They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
 Paved paradise, put up a parking lot
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 They put up a parking lot
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 Yeah, they put up a parking lot
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 Put up a parking lot
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 Put up a parking lot, stop it
 They put up a parking lot, yeah
 
 I said, stop it, no more parking lots
 Build some parks, plant some trees