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 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 all a dollar and a half just to see 'em....

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you got til it's gone?

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer put away that DDT

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 got til it's gone?

They paved paradise and put up 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 got til it's gone?