John Prine - "Paradise" with intro - 1973
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- John Prine - “Paradise” with intro April 11th 1973 - State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, audio recording.
Paradise Kentucky; a real part of John’s childhood stories: “Had whole a lot of fun down there. Me and my cousins would go to this place it was about a half mile down (Green River) river from Paradise, there’s this old abandoned Civil War Prison.” “We made the mistake of tellin this one aunt of ours we'd been playin by the prison. So when she found out we’d been playing up there, she says: You boys shouldn’t go up on Airdrie Hill. Airdrie Hill is just crawlin with snakes. There’s snake all over that place. If you ever go back up there again; take a pistol with you, and if you smell anything that smells like cucumbers, start shootin!”
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Such a great loss of an American singer songwriter, and here is to the songs he gave us. Miss you John. Rest in Paradise.
This is excellent!.. Rest in Paradise, John..
I grew up on the green river in Green County Kentucky, and I have a lot of memories of sing this song to my self while fishing and playing in the green river. R I P John
It's kind of a vague memory now but I know how I used to get together with some of my friends years ago that we would listen to John Prine here is that why those were the good old days. I miss seeing some of those people and I miss her and John Prine sing parrot may he rest in peace
Sat on the bench with the women I love at john Prine Park Memorial Park Rochester KY Today. Saw a Crane fly by and the fish were a jumpin. Wonderful--thanks John--your the soundtrack of this Kentucky Boys Life
Still and always my favorite Prine song.
John is all the way to heaven tonight. Bless his soul.
John Prine RIP. My equivalent of Paradise, Kentucky is in fact The Schwangunk Mountains near New Paltz, NY where he gave this concert. The Rondout / Walkill / Esopus Rivers and especially the Peterskill Stream with a half dozen waterfalls in Minnewaska Preserve across the mountain from SUNY New Paltz has not been ravaged. But it is threatened by the arrogance of two baby boomer angels named Bob Anderberg and Mike Fink who both think they have a right to do anything in the name of a self-serving distortion of conservation. Whether you call yourself "an aggressive environmental land trust attorney" like the former or an "eco-sensitive logger-developer" like the latter, in the end if you don't both protect the wilderness and assure public access, you are only marginally better than the Peabody Coal Company! The Schwangunk Ridge ought to become New York's first national park because, simply, it is the Yosemite of the East and the north terminus of the Shenandoah Mtns. I'm glad John Prine visited and I wish I had been at the performance.
I live there. Nice.
and i was born and raised in Woodstock. i left that little town to live out west in my early teens. Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho and Montana have all been my home. anywhere the Rocky mountains frame the sunsets is where i want to be. after living in Montana for about eighteen years, my mother fell ill back in NY. with no means or help,i had to go back and take care of her. my first night "home", i walked out into the front yard to watch the sun setting behind the Catskill Mountains. as it got dark... the face of Overlook mountain began to light up like a christmas tree from all the new houses that had been built. what was always a dark silhouette against the evening sky now looks like a billboard along the thruway! after twelve years stranded in NY caring for her...mom passed away. i left NY to return to my beloved Bitterroot Valley....only to find that it had been ruined by greedy land grabbing developers too!! so.....mama, won't you take me back to Ravalli County...down by the Bitterroot river, where paradise lay. well, i'm sorry my son...but you're too late in asking....Mr. Costner's TV show has hauled it away!
The song explains it's self. The story OMG
Always heard that copper heads smelled like cucumbers. 1990 I welded as an Iron Worker at Paradise Steam Plant, locals told me Paradise was bought out and bulldozed . I rented a room in Morgan Town and somewhere near Rochester was the remnants of a dam where all it was left was kinda like a water fall and I wondered if it was the dam mentioned in the song.
If you were near Morgantown and Rochester you were in the exact place John Prine was talking
Kara Porter yeah and the area was just beautiful even in winter, I live in rural middle Tennessee but I realized what the early residents of Paradise lost when “Mr Peabody ‘s coal train hauled it away”
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Paradise lost... and how much more will we lose
Harrison Honda idk land reclamation is more demanded now but hell who knows what fracking will prove to be . But I know this when I was a little boy in the late 1950’s my father bought a 200+ acre farm in middle Tennessee, the adjacent farm had been strip mined for phosphate and the once majestic hill had been turned into what looked like a waste land , huge piles of bare red chert with open deep ponds with straight off dangerous loose walls . Acres of eye sore that could be seen for miles and it was as if Mother Nature said “ you aren’t going to do this “. Now 60 years later she has put back what was taken , gone are the huge open ponds with vertical walls all that remains are little water holes with trees growing up in them with turtles and frogs having the last laugh.
Yes it is
Rest In Peace John you will be missed , tears
One of my favorites kind of like my hometown
Great version ... I’ve never heard this version before. Thanks for posting!
there will never be another John Prine!!! what a poet✌😇🥰
The Everly Brothers came from there
Really? Woah . Didn't know that. Hell why would I!
Way down in Bowling Green, Ching...
A man in Kentucky is oh so lucky.....
Looking forward to walk these lands
@@joebrowne9217 The Everly Brothers version of this song 'Paradise' is brilliant.
Snakes do smell like cucumbers! So strange. But I do not advocate shooting any of them! They are part of the ecosystem! Leave em alone. Like John said, shoot the pollution instead! That's more of a threat! Great song buddy!!!! So sad we are going to destroy our planet!
Please dont tell me it was Cove-19
The cause was complications of the coronavirus, his family said.
@@fuzzyallan But ofcourse, what else would it be🤔
@@sds4life17 John Pine was a big part of my music writing style. Telling a story was the most important thing. Bought his records, learned most songs, and saw him in Portland Oregon once. Amazingly talented soul.
My Uncle John Crider ran the second Shovel you'd see when you crossed the
Green River west bound on the Green River. P&M mining. Sad most all the coal is gone. So I ran the Hillbilly hwy to Ohio.
Just to discover the Bastards took the papermills up here as well.
I take it that this is where TVA Paradise power plant got the Paradise name. I've heard that the coal shovel is buried around this area. I'm from West Virginia and never knew about the story and song. Couple of the locals told me about this and I took a chance on finding the song on here. Great song with a sad origin.
I was a senior in HS when he did this song live. No Top 40 on him, no FM Rock then, I did 2 years in Germany with the Army 74-76, us guys in the barracks never played him.
John, thank you for all the years. All the music. Living on in perpetuity. Thank you.
Peabody Energy, sued John Prine to stop him from playing this song, it was so absurd, they gave him national exposure. Their last failed attempt to change the lyrics, ended in failure in 2015. They have done more to promote this song, then stop it or change it.
awesome post. thanks fuzzy. lucky to see him once.
Great song, great song.
Great song...paradise.kentucky..
God bless ‘em rip John Prine
Rest In Peace John✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Beautiful. Thanks for posting
This song inspired my daughter to pursue a career in Environmental Law
A True American Treasure
RIP JP
good song
Thanks. Nice intro story too.
Get better John
Miss ya John
Anywhere would be Paradise after Chicago.
Christ is the ONLY WAY to heaven.
and there's nowhere to go. The kingdom of heaven is within you. I am with you always.