I always knew Joni Mitchell was a big fan of the Campus Inn. But her classic song also celebrates the privatization of Clark Park and UCD's poisoning of the holy dandelion to make us pretty.
We finally got the paradise that we have craved! Celebrating paradise/Big Yellow Taxi They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got Till its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot (And for the new Penn Park formerly Clark Park) They took all the trees Put em in a tree museum And they charged the people "Seventy five bucks" just to see em Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got Till its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot (And bye-bye holy dandelion. Thank you UCD) Hey farmer farmer Put away that d.d.t. now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees Please! Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got Till its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot....
