Big Yellow Taxi lyrics by Joni Mitchell
They paved paradiseput 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
put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
put them in a tree museum
And they charged the people
a dollar and a half
just to see them
Don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what
you've got til it's gone
They paved paradise
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 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 til it's gone
They paved paradise
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
put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
put up a parking lot
