Big Yellow Taxi
By: Joni Mitchell
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 ‘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
Then 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 ‘Til it’s gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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 ‘Til its gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi come and took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you’ve got ‘Til it’s gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
I said don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you’ve got ‘Til it’s gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
