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 them in a tree museum
 And the charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see them
 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 that D.D.T.
 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 and put up a parking lot