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



They took all the trees

And put 'em in a tree museum

And they charged the people

Twenty-five bucks 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 up a parking lot



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 put up a parking lot

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot



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 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

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Steamrool Paradise

And put up a parking lot