When I was a child, my family would travel 当我还是个孩子，我的家人将前往

down to western Kentucky where my parents were born. 下降到肯塔基州西部的地方我的父母出生。

There's a backwards old town that's often remembered, so my times that my memories are worn. 有一个向后的老城区是常常想起，所以我的时间，我的记忆被磨损。

And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, 爸爸，你不带我回穆伦堡县，

down by the Green River where paradise lay? 下来的绿河，天堂打下？

Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking. 嗯，对不起，我的儿子，但你来不及问。

Mister Peabody's coal train just hauled it away. 先生皮博迪煤炭火车只需拖拉它拿走。

   

Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River 好了，有时我们会前往沿着这条绿河

to the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill, 在废弃的旧监狱下降Adrie山，

where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols, 这里的空气闻起来像蛇，我们就拍我们的手枪，

but empty pop bottles was all we would kill. 而空饮料瓶是所有我们会杀了。

And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, 爸爸，你不带我回穆伦堡县，

down by the Green River where paradise lay? 下来的绿河，天堂打下？

Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking. 嗯，对不起，我的儿子，但你来不及问。

Mister Peabody's coal train just hauled it away. 先生皮博迪煤炭火车只需拖拉它拿走。

   

Well, the coal company came with the world's largest shovel, 那么，煤炭企业就与世界上最大的铲，

and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land. 他们折磨了木材和剥离所有的土地。

And they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken, wrote it all down as the progress of man. 他们挖了自己的煤，直到土地被抛弃了，写了这一切为人类的进步。

And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, 爸爸，你不带我回穆伦堡县，

down by the Green River where paradise lay? 下来的绿河，天堂打下？

Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking. 嗯，对不起，我的儿子，但你来不及问。

Mister Peabody's coal train just hauled it away. 先生皮博迪煤炭火车只需拖拉它拿走。

And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, 爸爸，你不带我回穆伦堡县，

down by the Green River where paradise lay? 下来的绿河，天堂打下？

Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking. 嗯，对不起，我的儿子，但你来不及问。

Mister Peabody's coal train just hauled it away. 先生皮博迪煤炭火车只需拖拉它拿走。