John Fogerty - Paradise

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.30]Paradise - John Fogerty [00:11.02]When I was a child my family would travel [00:14.65]Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born [00:20.17]There's a backwards old town that's often remembered [00:24.42]So many times that my memories are worn [00:29.28]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county [00:33.48]Down by the green river where paradise lay [00:38.53]Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [00:42.63]Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [00:47.68]Well sometimes we'd travel right down the green river [00:51.81]To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie hill [00:56.79]Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols [01:01.36]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [01:06.18]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county [01:10.21]Down by the green river where paradise lay [01:15.21]Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [01:19.43]Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:24.43]Hey [01:45.39]Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel [01:49.24]And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land [01:54.28]Well they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken [01:58.42]Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man [02:03.52]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county [02:07.59]Down by the green river where paradise lay [02:12.74]Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [02:16.68]Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [02:21.38]When I die let my ashes float down the green river [02:25.70]Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam [02:30.98]I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting [02:34.93]Just five miles away from wherever I am [02:40.04]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county [02:44.07]Down by the green river where paradise lay [02:48.80]Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [02:53.20]Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away