Big Yellow Taxi ('Friends' album version)

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hotspot

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

(Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)

They took all the trees, put them in a tree museum

And 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, put up a parking lot

(Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)

Hey farmer, farmer, put away the 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, put up a parking lot

(Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-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 till it's gone?

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

(Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)

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

(Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

(Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

Ah ha ha ha