Исполнитель: | John Prine (English) |
Пользователь: | ralph estes |
Длительность: | 130 секунд |
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When I was a child my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
There's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that the memory is worn
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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 Avery Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles is all we would kill
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Then the coal company came with the world's biggest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well they dug out their coal til the land was forsaken
And they wrote it all down as the progress of man
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When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
I'll be half way to heaven with Paradise waiting
Just five miles away from wherever I am
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