"Big Yellow Taxi" lyrics
(originally by Joni Mitchell)
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 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half 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
Hey, farmer, farmer
Put away that DDT now
You give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til its gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
(Oh la la la)
(Oh la la la)
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
(Oh la la la)
(Oh la la la)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
You paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
(Oh la la la)
Oh they paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
(Oh la la la)
I said they paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
(I didn't wanna end...)
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
They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half 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
Hey, farmer, farmer
Put away that DDT now
You give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til its gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
(Oh la la la)
(Oh la la la)
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
(Oh la la la)
(Oh la la la)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
You paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
(Oh la la la)
Oh they paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
(Oh la la la)
I said they paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
(I didn't wanna end...)
