Big Yellow Taxi [Live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 7/24/2022]

They paved paradise and 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

Ooo-bop-bop-bop-bop

Ooo-bop-bop-bop-bop

They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum

(Yes they did!)

And they charged the people arm and a leg 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

Ooo-bop-bop-bop-bop

Ooo-bop-bop-bop-bop

Hey farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now

(No, put it away!)

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

Ooo-bop-bop-bop-bop

Ooo-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

Ooo-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

Ooo-bop-bop-bop-bop

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

Ooo-bop-bop-bop-bop

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot