《Paradise》歌词

[00:00:00] Paradise - John Prine

[00:00:07] When I was a child my family would travel

[00:00:11] Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

[00:00:16] There's a backwards old town that's often remembered

[00:00:20] So many times that my memories are worn

[00:00:25] Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

[00:00:28] Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

[00:00:33] I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking

[00:00:37] Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

[00:00:44] But sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River

[00:00:48] To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

[00:00:53] Where the air smelled like snakes

[00:00:55] And we'd shoot with our pistols

[00:00:57] But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

[00:01:02] Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

[00:01:06] Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

[00:01:10] I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking

[00:01:14] Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

[00:01:39] And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel

[00:01:43] We'll tortured the timber and stripped all the land

[00:01:48] They dug for their coal till the land was forsaken

[00:01:52] And they wrote it all down as the progress of man

[00:01:57] Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

[00:02:01] Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

[00:02:06] I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking

[00:02:10] Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

[00:02:34] When I die let my ashes float down the Green River

[00:02:38] Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam

[00:02:43] I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting

[00:02:47] Just five miles away from wherever I am

[00:02:52] And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

[00:02:56] Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

[00:03:01] I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking

[00:03:05] Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

[00:03:09] Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

[00:03:14] Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away