♪ - 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 'til it's gone. ♪
♪ They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. ♪
♪ - They took all of the trees and put 'em ♪
♪ in a tree museum, and they charged the people a dollar ♪
♪ and a half to see them. ♪
♪ No, no, no. ♪
♪ Don't it always seem to go that you don't know ♪
♪ what you've got 'til it's gone. ♪
♪ They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. ♪
♪ - Hey, farmer, farmer, put away the DDT. ♪
♪ I don't care about the 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've got 'til it's gone. ♪
♪ They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. ♪
♪ And now they've paved paradise to put up a parking lot. ♪
♪ Why not? ♪
♪ - Listening 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 'til 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 'til it's gone. ♪
♪ They paved paradise and put a parking lot. Why not? ♪
♪ They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, paved paradise and put up a parking lot. ♪
♪ - I don't want give it. ♪
♪ Why you want to give--why you want ♪
♪ to give it all away? ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, now you want give it. ♪
♪ Ah, she want to give it ♪
♪ because she giving it all away. ♪
♪ Now, now, now, I don't want to give it. ♪
♪ Why you want to give--why you want to give it all away? ♪
♪ Giving it all--giving it all away. ♪
♪ - Why you want it? ♪
♪ - She's giving it all away. ♪
♪ - Hey, pave paradise to put up a parking lot. ♪