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

Shoo-bop, bop, bop, bop

Shoo-bop, bop, bop, bop

They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum

And they charged 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

Shoo-bop, bop, bop, bop

Shoo-bop, bop, bop, bop

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, put up a parking lot

Shoo-bop, bop, bop, bop

Shoo-bop, bop, bop, bop

Late last night, I heard the 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

Shoo-bop, bop, bop, bop

I said

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

Shoo-bop, bop, bop, bop

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

Shoo-bop, bop, bop, bop

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot