(With apologies to Joni Mitchell)

They paved paradise

And built a bunch of a biofuel plants!

Making ethanol fuel using coal

On their government grants!

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 ugly biofuel plants!

Then they cut down all the trees

And planted lots of biofuel crops!

Now the fertilizer runoff is

Causing giant ocean dead spots!

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you’ve got

Till it’s gone!

They ploughed paradise

To supply all the biofuel plants!

Hey farmer farmer

Put away that subsidy now!

Just grow the corn for tortillas

And leave me some pesos for cheese

Please!

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you’ve got

Till it’s gone!

They ploughed paradise

To supply all the biofuel plants!

Late last night

I heard the screen door slam.

And a big yellow lobby

Took cheap food away.

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you’ve got

Till its gone!

They paved paradise

To supply all the biofuel plants!