| 歌曲 | Paradise |
| 歌手 | John Prine |
| 专辑 | Great Days: The John Prine Anthology |
| Lyrics：John Prine Music：John Prine | |
| 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. | |
| Chorus: | |
| 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 adrie hill | |
| Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols | |
| But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. | |
| Repeat chorus: | |
| 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. | |
| Repeat chorus: | |
| 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. | |
| Repeat chorus: |
| Lyrics: John Prine Music: John Prine | |
| 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. | |
| Chorus: | |
| 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 adrie hill | |
| Where the air smelled like snakes and we' d shoot with our pistols | |
| But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. | |
| Repeat chorus: | |
| 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. | |
| Repeat chorus: | |
| 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. | |
| Repeat chorus: |