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Standard (EADGBE)

 1.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, that you don't know what

 you've got 'till it's gone. They paved paradise and

put up a parking lot.

2.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.

Chorus

3.Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT, now.

Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the

bees. Please!

Chorus

4.Late last night I heard the screen door slam,

And a big yellow taxi came and took away my old man.

Chorus

The chords for the verses are the same and so it is for

the chorus.

Mitchell adds this at the end of the song:

Woo..........Pa.....pa.....pa.....pa..... (x5) then the

chorus is repeated with one more Woo

pa.....pa.....pa.....pa... to finish.

A blast from the past from Kraziekhat!