[Verse 1]
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot

[Chorus]
Don't it always seem to go?
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

[Verse 2]
Took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em

[Chorus]
Don't it always seem to go?
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

[Verse 3]
Hey, farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees
Please

[Chorus]
Don't it always seem to go?
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
Thеy paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]
Latе last night, I heard that screen door slam
And a big yellow tractor come and
Pushed around my house, pushed around my land
I said

[Chorus]
Don't it always seem to go?
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

[Verse 5]
Late last night, I heard that screen door slam again again
And a big yellow taxi come and took away my old man again

[Chorus]
Don't it always seem to go?
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
Ooh, they paved paradise and they put up those parking lots
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
They put up a parking lot, they put up a parking lot