Big Yellow Taxi

[Verse 1]

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 3]

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now

Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 4]

Late last night I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi took away my old man

[Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

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