text: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
  With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin hot spot
  Dont it always seem to go
  That you dont know what youve got til its gone?
  They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
  (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
  Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)
  They took all the trees, put em in a tree museum
  And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em
  Dont it always seem to go
  That you dont know what youve got til its gone?
  They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
  (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
  Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)
  Hey farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now
  Give me spots on my apples
  But leave me the birds and the bees, please
  Dont it always seem to go
  That you dont know what youve got til its gone?
  They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
  (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
  Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)
  Late last night, I heard the screen door slam
  And a big yellow taxi took away my old man
  Dont it always seem to go
  That you dont know what youve got til its gone?
  They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
  I said, dont it always seem to go
  That you dont know what youve got til its gone?
  They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
  They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
  They paved paradise, put up a parking lot