The song "
Big yellow taxi" was written and recorded by Joni Mitchell in 1970. Some of the lyrics are the following.
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
Oh, bop, bop, bop Oh, bop, bop, bop