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, put up a parking lot
(Choo... bop bop bop bop, choo... bop bop bop bop)
They took all the trees and 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
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
(Choo... bop bop bop bop, choo... bop bop bop bop)
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
(Choo... bop bop bop bop, choo... bop bop bop bop)
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
(Choo... bop bop bop bop)
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 (Choo... bop bop bop bop)
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Choo... bop bop bop bop)
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot