Reply #22: paradise by john prine [View All]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT8Whx6rTLM

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

And theres a backwards old town thats often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son but your too late in asking
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well sometimes we'd travel right down the green river

To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelt like snakes that we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Then the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel
And they tortured the timbers and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man


When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River

Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam

I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting

Just five miles away from wherever I am