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Fri Sep-02-11 03:12 PM
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Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county... |
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Fri Sep-02-11 03:50 PM
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He wrote it for his father, right?
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Fri Sep-02-11 03:57 PM
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Fri Sep-02-11 04:04 PM
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3. Sang it as a lullaby to my kids. |
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Fri Sep-02-11 04:55 PM
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My mom only sang me Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
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Fri Sep-02-11 05:21 PM
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http://youtu.be/DeDWJqvpat0Not that John Prine is not great, but Jim & Jesse take it back to the hills....
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Fri Sep-02-11 05:29 PM
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That version is better, but I still love the original. One thing Jim and Jesse have going for them is that they came rom Southwestern VA, right? So they're southerners. Prine came from Chicago, so he had to put on the accent a bit.
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Fri Sep-02-11 06:29 PM
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7. I live about 20 miles north of Muhlenberg County... |
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and you really don't want to go there anyway. The Everly Brothers were the only things of worth to come from there...well, James Best, too.
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Fri Sep-02-11 06:58 PM
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8. down by the green river where my paradise something. |
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lol
Okay, I gave it a shot. :)
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Fri Sep-02-11 07:10 PM
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You fail.
Maybe if you were smart and had created jerbs like dat der Rick Parry then you would have known the lyrics. =)
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Fri Sep-02-11 07:47 PM
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10. I should know it in my sleep, my ex used to do it in his second set |
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every Friday night for years in a peanut bar. lol
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Fri Sep-02-11 07:59 PM
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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 Adrie Hill Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
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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.
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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.
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