| They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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| With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
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| Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
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| They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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| Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop
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| They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
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| And then they charged all the poeple twenty-five bucks just to see 'em
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| Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
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| They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
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| Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop
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| Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now
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| Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please
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| Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
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| They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
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| I say, 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
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| They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
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| Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
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| Late last night I heard the screen door slam
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| And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man
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| Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
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| They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
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| Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
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| Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
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| They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
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| Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
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| Oh, now, they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
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| Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
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| Hey, steam rolled paradise and put up a parking lot
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| Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop |