Paradise-John Denver

[00:00.000] 作词 : John Prine [00:01.000] 作曲 : John Prine [00:04.35]When I was a child, my family would travel [00:07.96]Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born [00:12.97]And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered [00:17.00]So many times that my memories are worn [00:22.00]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [00:25.77]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [00:30.76]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking [00:34.66]Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [00:39.77]Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River [00:43.44]To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill [00:48.39]Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols [00:52.45]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [00:57.38]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [01:01.05]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [01:05.97]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking [01:09.89]Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:15.21]And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel [01:18.98]And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land [01:23.93]And they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken [01:28.15]Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man [01:32.16]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [01:35.87]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [01:40.84]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking [01:44.66]Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:50.02]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [01:53.72]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [01:58.70]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking [02:02.50]Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away