Appalachian Kids Give Science Lesson to President Obama

[DreamGypsy]

6. Congratulations to these young people who care for their heath and home. Reminds me of Paradise...

...the song by John Prine, about the uh, ... work... done by the Peabody Coal Company.

Just a slight chance these young people can save their homes, if the President cares.

When I was a young boy my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born.
There's a backwards old coal town that's often remembered,
So many times that my memories are worn.
Daddy, won't you take be back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay.
I'm sorry, by son, but you're too late in asking,
Mr. Peabody's coal train just hauled it away.

(start the video at ~1:40 to skip John's Illinois recollections)

The coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timbers and stripped all the land.
They dug for the coal till the land was forsaken,
Then they wrote it all down to the progress of Man.

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When I die let my ashes flow down the Green River,
Let my soul roll on up the the Rochester dam.
I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting
Just five miles away from wherever I am.