They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' 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

(Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)

They took all the trees put 'em in a tree museum

And they charged the people a dollar an' 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

(Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, 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

(Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, 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 (ooh, 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 (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop)

They paved paradise

Put up a parking lot