Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Paradise, artist - John Prine. Album song German Afternoons, in the genre Date of issue: 31.12.1985
Record label: Oh Boy
Song language: English
Paradise |
| When I was a child my family would travel |
| Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born |
| And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered |
| So many times that my memories are worn |
| And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County? |
| Down by the Green River where Paradise lay |
| Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking |
| Mister 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 Airdrie Hill |
| Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols |
| But empty pop bottles was all we would kill |
| And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County? |
| Down by the Green River where Paradise lay |
| Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking |
| Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away |
| Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel |
| And they tortured the timber 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 |
| And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County? |
| Down by the Green River where Paradise lay |
| Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking |
| Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away |
| 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 waitin' |
| Just five miles away from wherever I am |
| And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County? |
| Down by the Green River where Paradise lay |
| Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking |
| Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away |