Big Green Lobby (sung to “Big Yellow Taxi”)

by Ken Green

(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