Paradise "Keystone Pipeline" - John Prine Cover
http://www.jtmp.org - We did it!! We got the Keystone Pipline Veto!! Woo!!! A cover of John Prine's great song, "Paradise" with updated lyrics (lyrics below) that was originally written against mountaintop-removal mining in Kentucky where John Prine used to visit as a kid. This version speaks out against the Keystone XL Pipeline and Fracking, and we thank our supporters who fought the Keystone XL Pipeline construction, and let's not forget the other battle: Fracking.
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CREDITS:
Music/Original Lyrics: John Prine (License on file - Harry Fox Agency)
New Lyrics, video, acoustic guitar, vocals: Craig Gillette
Harmony Vocals: Terri Butler
Vocals, bass, mandolin and harmonica: Tom Forsey
Recorded by Dave Hanbury - House of JamRecording
http://www.houseofjamrecording.com
Additional footage by:
Rallies: Dan Caden and Craig Gillette
Green River kayaking - iamthekee
Tar Sands - DirtyOilSands.org
Blockades - TarSandsBlockade.org
Highbridge, KY - no4472
Green River campground - GreensongOakheart
Keystone Piepline - uaweb901 - ua.org
Animation
GreensEFA - greens-efa.eu
Blockade - Indymedia
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
Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay
I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
The Keystone Pipeline's hauled it away
Sometimes we'd travel, right down the Green River
To that abandoned old prison, down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes, and we shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay
I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
The Keystone Pipeline's hauled it away
And the gas company came, with the world's largest drill
and they tortured the timber, and stripped all the land
And they Fracked for their gas, till the land was forsaken
then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay
I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
The Keystone Pipeline has hauled it away
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 waiting
Just 5 miles away from wherever I am
Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay
I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
The Keystone Pipeline's hauled it away
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