Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise
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
Put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put ‘em in a tree museum
And they charged all 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

Hey farmer farmer
Put away the D.D.T. now
Give me spots on my apples
Leave me the birds and the bees

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

Late last night
I heard my 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

They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot

They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot