Album tersebut diluncurkan oleh label musik Atlantic pada 1971.
Album yang memuat 13 lagu bergenre folk tersebut sempat masuk dalam chart Billboard urutan ke-452 dari total 500 album.
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Paradise" dari John Prine.
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
C F C
When I was a child my family would travel
C G C
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
C F C
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
C G C
So many times that my memories are worn.
[Chorus]
C F C
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
C G C
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
C F C
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
C G C
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 2]
C F C
Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
C G C
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
C F C
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
C G C
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
[Chorus]
C F C
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
C G C
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
C F C
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
C G C
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 3]
C F C
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
C G C
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
C F C
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
C G C
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
[Chorus]
C F C
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
C G C
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
C F C
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
C G C
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 4]
C F C
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
C G C
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
C F C
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting
C G C
Just five miles away from wherever I am.
[Chorus]
C F C
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
C G C
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
C F C
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
C G C
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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