Posted on Oct 18, 2020
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - "Paradise" (John Prine Tribute Performance)
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John Prine - Paradise (Live at Farm Aid 1986)
John Prine performs "Paradise" live at the Farm Aid concert in Austin, Texas on July 4, 1986. Farm Aid was started by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mell...
Thank you my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for posting the music video of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass performing "Paradise" as part of a John E. Prine Tribute Performance.
Rest in peace John Prine.
For comparison John Prine - Paradise (Live at Farm Aid 1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giZuRSkKX54
"Paradise" written by John Prine
Lyrics
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 memories are worn.
[Chorus:]
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
[Chorus]
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
[Chorus]
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.
[Chorus]"
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Kim Patterson MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. LTC Greg Henning Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown SMSgt Lawrence McCarter SMSgt David A Asbury SPC Nancy Greene TSgt David L. TSgt Joe C. MSG Felipe De Leon Brown SSG Stephen Rogerson SPC Matthew Lamb CWO3 Dennis M. CWO3 Randy Weston SFC William Farrell Sgt (Join to see)
Rest in peace John Prine.
For comparison John Prine - Paradise (Live at Farm Aid 1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giZuRSkKX54
"Paradise" written by John Prine
Lyrics
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 memories are worn.
[Chorus:]
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
[Chorus]
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
[Chorus]
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.
[Chorus]"
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Kim Patterson MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. LTC Greg Henning Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown SMSgt Lawrence McCarter SMSgt David A Asbury SPC Nancy Greene TSgt David L. TSgt Joe C. MSG Felipe De Leon Brown SSG Stephen Rogerson SPC Matthew Lamb CWO3 Dennis M. CWO3 Randy Weston SFC William Farrell Sgt (Join to see)
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