Текст песни John Prine - Paradise
John Prine - Paradise слова песни
When I was a child my family would travelDown to western kentucky where my parents were bornAnd theres a backwards old town thats often rememberedSo many times that my memories are worn.Chorus:And daddy wont you take me back to muhlenberg countyDown by the green river where paradise layWell, Im sorry my son, but youre too late in askingMister peabodys coal train has hauled it awayWell, sometimes wed travel right down the green riverTo the abandoned old prison down by adrie hillWhere the air smelled like snakes and wed shoot with our pistolsBut empty pop bottles was all we would kill.Repeat chorus:Then the coal company came with the worlds largest shovelAnd they tortured the timber and stripped all the landWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsakenThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man.Repeat chorus:When I die let my ashes float down the green riverLet my soul roll on up to the rochester damIll be halfway to heaven with paradise waitinJust five miles away from wherever I am.Repeat chorus: