Paradise-John Denver

[ti:Paradise] [ar:John Denver] [al:Sunshine On My Shoulders: The Best Of John Denver] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Paradise - John Denver (约翰·丹佛) [00:02.26]Written by：John Prine [00:04.53]When I was a child my family would travel [00:07.53] [00:08.09]Down to western kentucky where my parents were born [00:11.15] [00:13.03]And theres a backwards old town thats often remembered [00:15.94] [00:17.20]So many times that my memries are worn [00:20.23] [00:22.15]And daddy won't you take me back to muhlenberg County [00:24.93] [00:25.86]Down by the green river where paradise lay [00:29.04] [00:30.87]Well i'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [00:34.09] [00:34.89]Mister peabodys coal train has hauled it away [00:37.61] [00:39.97]Well sometimes wed travel right down the green river [00:43.64]To the abandoned old prison down by adrie hill [00:46.37] [00:48.60]Where the air smelled like snakes and wed shoot with our pistols [00:51.94] [00:52.65]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [00:55.70] [00:57.67]And daddy won't you take me back to muhlenberg County [01:00.18] [01:01.28]Down by the green river where paradise lay [01:04.44] [01:06.34]Well i'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [01:09.35] [01:10.00]Mister peabodys coal train has hauled it away [01:12.98] [01:15.27]And the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel [01:18.38] [01:19.18]And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land [01:22.43] [01:24.24]Well they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken [01:27.08] [01:28.12]Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man [01:31.22] [01:32.32]And daddy won't you take me back to muhlenberg County [01:35.18] [01:36.05]Down by the green river where paradise lay [01:39.11] [01:41.08]Well i'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [01:44.28] [01:44.88]Mister peabodys coal train has hauled it away [01:48.05] [01:50.18]Daddy won't you take me back to muhlenberg County [01:53.02] [01:53.80]Down by the green river where paradise lay [01:57.08] [01:58.94]Well i'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [02:02.07] [02:02.79]Mister peabodys coal train has hauled it away