Lyrics Big Yellow Taxi - The Cooltrane Quartet

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 got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and half to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Hey, farmer, farmer, put away that D.D.T.
Gimme the spots on my apples, and leave me the birds and the bees, please
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
You paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Is it late last night I heard the scream door slam?
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot