Big Yellow Taxi (the Paradise Mix)

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

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

And then they charged all the poeple twenty-five bucks 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

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Hey farmer

farmer

put away your DDT 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 they put up a parking lot

I say

they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

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Late last night I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

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Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

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Oh

now

they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot

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Hey

steam rolled paradise and put up a parking lot

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