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'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 they charged the people
A dollar and a half to seem them

Now, now, now
Don't it always seem to go,
And 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
I don't 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've got 'till it's 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've got 'till it's 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've got 'till it's gone
They paved paradise
To put up a parking lot
Why not,
They paved paradise
To put a parking lot
Hey hey hey
Paved paradise
Put up a parking lot

I dont want give it-
Why you want give it,
Why you want givin 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 don't want give it-
Why you want give it,
Why you want givin it all away?
Givin it all, givin it all away
Yeah, yeah
'Cause she givin it all away
Hey, hey, yeah

Hey pave paradise
Put up a parking lot
Pave paradise
Put up a parking lot