This Used To Be Paradise-Marcia Ball

[ti:This Used to Be Paradise] [ar:Marcia Ball] [al:Roadside Attractions] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Used To Be Paradise - Marcia Ball (玛西娅·鲍尔) [00:11.63]My grandaddy was a fisherman [00:15.70] [00:16.67]Lived on the water more than the land [00:21.93]He could tell the seasons by the turn of the tide [00:26.81] [00:27.65]I grew up right by his side [00:31.88]He was a proud cajun and he worked real hard [00:36.75] [00:37.43]The atchafalaya basin was his front yard [00:41.92] [00:42.79]And I can hear him saying with a tear in his eye [00:47.37] [00:47.96]This used to be paradise [00:51.69] [00:53.20]This used to be paradise [00:57.60] [00:59.54]Brown pelicans and sac au lait [01:04.48]Big salty oysters and alligators [01:09.74]So many fish they would jump in your boat [01:13.74] [01:15.15]Throw in a line and that's all she wrote [01:19.05]We had a little house on high ground [01:24.53] [01:25.94]Cypress trees all around [01:29.82] [01:31.20]Good living peace and quiet [01:35.62]This used to be paradise [01:39.36] [01:40.84]This used to be paradise [01:45.20] [01:47.04]Then one day the oil man came [01:50.93] [01:52.28]He gave us jobs and everything changed [01:56.39]We still run our boats and we drag our nets [02:02.03]But every day we get less and less and less [02:08.90]I guess you can't stop the way that time goes by [02:15.45] [02:16.50]And I can't think of any reason why [02:20.54]They had to come and take our way of life [02:25.53] [02:26.97]Now we don't know if we can even survive [02:31.22]They took the very land that our house was on [02:36.95]And the shrimp and the pelicans [02:39.38]They're just hanging on [02:41.60] [02:42.86]It's a damned shame to make an old man cry [02:46.90] [02:47.41]This used to be paradise [02:50.94] [02:52.69]This used to be paradise [02:56.78] [02:58.02]This used to be paradise [03:02.43] [03:03.20]This used to be paradise [03:07.61] [03:09.46]My grandaddy was a fisherman