Big Yellow Taxi

Big Yellow Taxi - Vinnick Sheppard Harte

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

You don't know what you've got till it's gone

They paved paradise put up a parking lot

Took all the trees 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

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 that DDT now

Give me spots on my apples leave me the birds and the bees

Please

Don't it always seem to go

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 that scream door slam

And a big yellow taxi and took away my old man

Don't it always seem to go

You don't know what you've got till it's gone

They paved paradise put up a parking lot

But late last night I heard that scream door slam again

And a big yellow taxi and took away my old man again again

Don't it always seem to go

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

And they paved paradise put up a parking lot