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Parking Lot Paroles

Joni Mitchell

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Paroles de Parking Lot

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



They took all the trees

And put them in a tree museum

And they charged all the people
That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And they put up a parking lot



Hey farmer farmer

Put away that D.D.T. now

Give me spots on my apples

But leave me the birds and the bees

Please!

Dont 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



Late last night

I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi

Took away 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 put up a parking lot