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...