Blog: Old Blue Bus

“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 Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away.” These lyrics and the tune that accompanies them are familiar to nearly everyone. I have met a few younger people who thought that the song was an old traditional song from the Appalachians. As much as it has been adopted by many traditional artists, “Paradise”, of course, was written by John Prine. I suspect that all of [...]

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