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 paved paradise and put up a parking lot
They took all the trees put 'em in a tree museum And then they charged all the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'em Don't it always seem to 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 me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please Don't it 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 don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking
Late last night I heard the screen door(*) slam And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man Don't it always seem go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up 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