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've got
  Till it's gone
  They paved paradise
  And put up a parking lot.
  
  They look all the trees
  And put them in a tree museum
  And they charged all the people
  A dollar and a half just to see 'em
  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 farmer farmer
  Put away that D.D.T. now
  Give me spots on my apples
  But leave me the birds and the bees
  Please!
  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.