Big Yellow Taxi Lyrics - Amy Grant

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 till it's gone 

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 

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

And then they charged all the people 

Twenty-five bucks just to see 'em 

Don't it always seem to go 

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now 

You 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 till it's gone 

They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot 

I say, they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot 

Don't it always seem to go 

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 

They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot 

Late last night I heard the screen door slam 

And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man 

Don't it always seem to go 

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 

They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot 

Don't it always seem to go 

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 

They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot 

Oh, no, no, paved paradise and they put up a parking lot 

Hey, steam rolled paradise and put up a parking lot