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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhxZ8ok3Z2o
Lyrics and Music by Joni Mitchell
Producer: Joni Mitchell
Year: 1970


[Intro]
                  
               

[Verse 1]
             
They paved par

              
adise and put 

             
up a parking l

ot
             
with a pink ho

             
tel, a boutiqu

            
e and a swingi

n' hot spot.

[Chorus]
             
Don't it alway

  
s seem to go
           
that you don't

              
 know what you

              
've got till i

    
t's gone.
             
They paved par

             
adise and put 

             
up a parking l

ot.

[Interlude]


[Verse 2]
             
They took all 

              
the trees, put

              
 'em in a tree

    
 museum
             
and they charg

              
ed the people 

             
a dollar and a

              
 half just to 


see 'em.

[Chorus]
             
Don't it alway

  
s seem to go
           
that you don't

              
 know what you

              
've got till i

    
t's gone.
             
They paved par

             
adise and put 

             
up a parking l

ot.

[Interlude]


[Verse 3]
             
Hey farmer, fa

              
rmer, put away

          
 that D.D.T. n

ow,
             
give me spots 

              
on my apples b

             
ut leave me th

              
e birds and th

  
e bees, please

.

[Chorus 3]
             
Don't it alway

  
s seem to go
           
that you don't

              
 know what you

              
've got till i

    
t's gone.
             
They paved par

             
adise and put 

             
up a parking l

ot.

[Interlude]


[Verse 4]
             
Late last nigh

              
t I heard the 

            
screen door sl

am
             
and a big yell

             
ow taxi took a

           
way my old man

[Chorus]
             
Don't it alway

  
s seem to go
           
that you don't

              
 know what you

              
've got till i

    
t's gone.
             
They paved par

             
adise and put 

             
up a parking l

     
ot.

             
Don't it alway

  
s seem to go
           
that you don't

              
 know what you

              
've got till i

    
t's gone.
             
They paved par

             
adise and put 

             
up a parking l

ot.

[Outro]
            
Yeah they pave

             
d paradise, pu

              
t up a parking

 
 lot
            
I said they pa

              
ved paradise, 

             
put up a parki

   
ng lot