Standard (EADGBE)

  (no 3) 022400

Intro

First verse:

 They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

 With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot

Chorus

 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

 (Shoo bop bop bop bop Shoo bop bop bop)

Second verse:

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

And they charged all the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'em

Repeat chorus:

Third verse:

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now

Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please

Repeat chorus twice:

Fourth verse:

Late last night I heard the screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man