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

And you don't know what you got til its gone

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 to seem 'em

Don't it always seem to go,

And you don't know what you got

'Til its gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer

Put away your DDT

I dont care about spots on my apples

Leave me the birds and the bees

Please!

Don't it always seem to go

And you don't know what you got

Til its gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Hey, now they paved paradise

To put up a parking lot

Why not?

Listen late last night

I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi

Took my girl away

Now, don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you got

'Til its gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Hey now, now

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you got

'Til its gone

They paved paradise

To put up a parking lot

I dont want give it-

Why you want give it,

Why you want give it all away?

Hey hey hey

Now you want give it,

Ah she wanna give it

Why she givin it all away

Now now now

i dont wanna give it

why you wanna give it

why you wanna give it all away?

hey hey now

your givin it all

your givin it all away

Hey pave paradise

Put up a parking lot