You 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
And paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Shoo bop bop bop bop
Shoo bop bop bop
You took all the trees and put them in a tree museum
And then they charged all the people
Twenty five bucks just to see them
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
Shoo bop bop bop bop
Shoo bop bop bop
Hey farmer farmer put away your ddt
Now you give me spice on my apples
Then leave me the birds and the bees please
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know
What you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
I said they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know
What you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Shoo bop bop bop
Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi carried up my old man
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know
What you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Shoo bop bop bop don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Oh no no no paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey steamroll paradise and put up a parking lot