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 got til it's gone?

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.



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 got til it's gone?

they paved paradise put up a parking lot.



Late last night I heard a screen door a 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