Big Yellow Taxi
Written and originally performed by Joni Mitchell in 1970
Remade by Amy Grant in 1994
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 up all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And then they charged all the people 25 bucks just 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 your DDT now,
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds & the bees please
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.
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.
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 got 'til it's gone,
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.