This Used To Be Paradise-Marcia Ball

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[00:00.00]This Used To Be Paradise - Marcia Ball
[00:11.63]My grandaddy was a fisherman
[00:16.67]Lived on the water more than the land
[00:21.93]He could tell the seasons by the turn of the tide
[00:27.65]I grew up right by his side
[00:31.88]He was a proud cajun and he worked real hard
[00:37.43]The atchafalaya basin was his front yard
[00:42.79]And I can hear him saying with a tear in his eye
[00:47.96]This used to be paradise
[00:53.20]This used to be paradise
[00:59.54]Brown pelicans and sac au lait
[01:04.48]Big salty oysters and alligators
[01:09.74]So many fish they would jump in your boat
[01:15.15]Throw in a line and that's all she wrote
[01:19.05]We had a little house on high ground
[01:25.94]Cypress trees all around
[01:31.20]Good living peace and quiet
[01:35.62]This used to be paradise
[01:40.84]This used to be paradise
[01:47.04]Then one day the oil man came
[01:52.28]He gave us jobs and everything changed
[01:56.39]We still run our boats and we drag our nets
[02:02.03]But every day we get less and less and less
[02:08.90]I guess you can't stop the way that time goes by
[02:16.50]And I can't think of any reason why
[02:20.54]They had to come and take our way of life
[02:26.97]Now we don't know if we can even survive
[02:31.22]They took the very land that our house was on
[02:36.95]And the shrimp and the pelicans
[02:39.38]They're just hanging on
[02:42.86]It's a damned shame to make an old man cry
[02:47.41]This used to be paradise
[02:52.69]This used to be paradise
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[03:03.20]This used to be paradise
[03:09.46]My grandaddy was a fisherman