Standard (EADGBE)

 They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

 With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swingin' hot spot

Chorus

 Don't it always seem to go

  (n.

.)

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

 They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

 (Choo bop bop bop bop, choo bop bop bop bop)

They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum

And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em

Chorus

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

Chorus

Late last night I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi took away my old man

Chorus twice

with only one chooo bop... at each end)

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (choo bop bop bop bop)

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot