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

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

 

Hey farmer farmer

Put away the 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

 

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

 

Late last night

I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi

Took away my old man

 

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"

 

They paved paradise

Put up a parking lot

 

They paved paradise

Put up a parking lot