John Prine《Paradise》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.55]When I was a child my family would travel [00:04.76]Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born [00:10.22]And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered [00:14.66]So many times that my memories are worn [00:18.74]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [00:23.05]Down by the green river where paradise lay [00:28.55]Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [00:34.12]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [00:41.76]Well sometimes we'd travel right down the green river [00:47.22]To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie hill [00:52.64]Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols [00:57.98]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [01:02.33]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county [01:06.72]Down by the green river where paradise lay [01:12.18]Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [01:17.53]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:44.33]Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel [01:48.69]And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land [01:54.27]Well they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken [01:58.54]Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man [02:03.02]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [02:07.50]Down by the green river where paradise lay [02:13.06]Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [02:18.51]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [02:28.51]When I die let my ashes float down the green river [02:33.06]Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam [02:38.43]I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin' [02:42.84]Just five miles away from wherever I am [02:47.24]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [02:51.56]Down by the green river where paradise lay [02:56.98]Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [03:02.63]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away