They paved paradise and put up a parking lot <br />With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot <br />Don&#39;t it always seem to go <br />That you don&#39;t know what you&#39;ve got till it&#39;s gone <br />They paved paradise and put up a parking lot <br />Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop <br /><br />They took all the trees and put &#39;em in a tree museum <br />And then they charged all the people <b>twenty-five </b>bucks just to see &#39;em <br />Don&#39;t it always seem to go <br /><br />That you don&#39;t know what you&#39;ve got till it&#39;s gone <br />They paved paradise and put up a parking lot <br />Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop <br /><br />Big Yellow Taxi -  Joni Mitchell.<br /><br /><br /><b>bop</b>