Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovelAnd they tortured the timber and stripped all the landWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsakenThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in askingMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
When I die let my ashes float down the Green RiverLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester damI’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin’Just five miles away from wherever I am
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in askingMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
SongwritersJOHN PRINE
Read more: John Prine – Paradise Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Thomas Thieme almost 7 years ago
Did Trump promise to bring back coal or miners?
Dtroutma almost 7 years ago
John Oliver just did an excellent summation of the “coal situation” in the US on “Last Week Tonight”.
charliekane almost 7 years ago
Put me in mind of this great song by John Prine
Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovelAnd they tortured the timber and stripped all the landWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsakenThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in askingMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
When I die let my ashes float down the Green RiverLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester damI’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin’Just five miles away from wherever I am
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in askingMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
SongwritersJOHN PRINE
Read more: John Prine – Paradise Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Mr. Blawt almost 7 years ago
twice the pollution with half the jobs… Republican utopia. Is it great yet?
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
Meanwhile the rest of the world is moving toward renewable energy.
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 7 years ago
More Pollution, Less solution!
amethyst52 Premium Member almost 7 years ago
No, hoodwinked by the stupid American voter.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 7 years ago
The owners of coal have been driving humans out and putting in automated robots instead.
Kip W almost 7 years ago
[Is this the one you drew on a tablet, M.W.?]