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 and put up a parking lot
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to seem 'em
No no no

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Well, hey farmer farmer, put away the DDT now
Give me some spots on my apples
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 and put up a parking lot

Listenin' late last night, I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took away my man, no

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot