John Prine's "Paradise" | Saturday Video For Mountain Top Removal Mining

..And other rapers of the land, you know who they are.
John Prine's song Paradise was about where he grew up. It can also easily apply to the greed and destruction of Mountaintop removal mining. The burying of streams and hollows.



This video is worth seeing just for the old images and the views of mining destruction. Just picture all that earth and rock dumped into neighboring streams and valleys.

Note: I'm not against coal mining. At least till a better source of energy presents itself as a viable alternative. I just want them to get it without being "Mister Peabody's coal train" over and over:

"Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovels
and they tortured the timber and they stripped all the land
Well they dug for the coal till the land was forsaken
Then we wrote it all down as the progress of man

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"
-John Prine

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