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[00:11.18]My grandaddy was a fisherman
[00:14.94]Lived on the water more than the land
[00:20.62]He could tell the seasons by the turn of the tide
[00:25.86]I grew up right by his side
[00:31.09]He was a proud cajun and he worked real hard
[00:36.27]The atchafalaya basin was his front yard
[00:41.61]I can hear him saying with a tear in his eye
[00:46.84]This used to be paradise
[00:51.28]This used to be paradise
[00:56.77]Brown pelicans and sac au lait
[01:02.85]Big salty oysters and alligators
[01:08.43]So many fish they would jump in your boat
[01:13.41]Throw in a line and that's all she wrote
[01:18.68]We had a little house on high ground
[01:24.17]Cypress trees all around
[01:29.61]Good living, peace and quiet
[01:34.65]This used to be paradise
[01:38.58]This used to be paradise
[01:45.55]Then one day the oil man came
[01:50.18]He gave us jobs and everything changed
[01:55.71]We still run our boats and we drag our nets
[02:00.65]But every day we get less and less and less
[02:08.06]I guess you can't stop the way that time goes by
[02:14.78]But I can't think of any reason why
[02:19.73]They had to come and take our way of life
[02:24.86]Now we don't know if we can even survive
[02:29.97]They took the very land our house was on
[02:35.89]And the shrimp and the pelicans, they're just hanging on
[02:41.00]It's a damned shame to make an old man cry
[02:45.67]This used to be paradise(x4)
[03:07.40]My grandaddy was a fisherman
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