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

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

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

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 d.d.t. now

Give me spots on my apples

But leave me the birds and the bees

Please!

Don't it always seem to go

You don't know what you've got

'Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot



Late last night

I heard that screen door slam

And a big yellow tractor came and

Pushed around my house

Pushed around my land

And I said, don't it always seem to go

You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot



Late last night

I heard that screen door slam again

And a big yellow taxi come and

Took away my old man again

Don't it always seem to go

You don't know what you've got

'Til it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot






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