Paradise

Well, the weekend has come and gone and alas... the Rapture did not take place.

Today's tune is a tribute to paradise and quite simply titled "Paradise". This was written by Lynn Anderson but the version I know best is by Hayseed Dixie.

How often do we wish for paradise and in doing so simply overlook what we already have, then in years to come we simply look back and wonder where it went. If only we had realised just what we really had.

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 mem'ries are worn.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my child but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Well, sometimes we traveled right down the Green River
By the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with the pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my child but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovels
They tortured the timber and they stripped all the land
Well they dug for the coal till the land was forsaken
Then we wrote it all down as the progress of man.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my child but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away...

Take in the paradise that you have today, for tomorrow it could have been taken away.