big yellow taxi

This was written a long time ago and still has a lot of relevance today:

They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot


With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot

Don't it always seem to go

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

They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot



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

And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them

No, no, no, 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 parkin' 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

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

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot




Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi took away my old man

Now don't it always seem to go

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

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Don't it always seem to go

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

They paved paradise to put up a parking lot

They paved paradise

They put up a parking lot

Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgMEPk6fvpg

Joni Mitchell