Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise and 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 and

put up a parking
lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bopbop shoo-bop-bop-bop)

They took all the trees and
put 'em in a tree museum
And then they charged all

the people twentyfive
bucks 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 and
put up a parking
lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bopbop shoo-bop-bop-bop)

Hey farmer, farmer,
put away your 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 they
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
they put up a parking
lot (Shoo-bop-bop)

Late last night I heard the
screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi

carried off 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

they put up a parking
lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bopbop)

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

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've
got 'till it's gone