Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel a boutique

And a swinging hotspot

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

'Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees

And put them in a tree museum

And they charged all the people

A dollar and a half just to see them

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 a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer put away that 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

And put a parking lot

Late last night

I heard a 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

And put up a parking lot

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