They paved paradise and put
up a cruise ship dock
With a pink tour bus, a duck tour, and a Wi-Fi hot spot
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 cruise ship dock
Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop
Spoken quickly, with emphasis...
They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum (and called
it the Discovery Center)
As the Mental Health Trust sells 'em off ad nauseum
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They shaved paradise and put up a cruise ship dock
Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
Hey fish farmer, put away your
weird fish genes now
Give me spots on my salmon and don't buy all the pixees, pleeease!
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 two cruise ship docks (Hold up
two fingers)
Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
I say They pave paradise and sell you some cruise ship schlock
Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
Late last night I heard the
storm door slam
And a big white cruise ship took away my old man
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 three cruise ship docks (three
fingers)
Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop, shoo-bop-bop-bop
They paved paradise and put
up a Bridge to Gravina
With higher property tax, a toll booth, and traffic that'll give
you an-jeena (angina - hand over heart)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
Oh now they paved paradise and put up four cruise ship docks
(four fingers)
Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop
Slower...
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you ve got till it's gone .
Sarcastically...
Hey, steam-roll paradise - Let's build another cruise ship dock!!!!!
