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

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

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

They put up a parking lot

Yeah, they put up a parking lot

Put up a parking lot

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