Standard (EADGBE)
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 got 'til 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 a dollar and a half just to see 'em...
Hey farmer farmer put away that DDT.
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Late last night I heard a screen door slam,
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man...