JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Paradise" adalah lagu John Prine yang dimuat dalam album debut eponimnya.
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.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Lets Talk Dirty in Hawaiian - John Prine
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