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Ian O’Shaughnessy

Quotes · John Prine

“Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel/

And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land./

Well, they dug for their coal ’til the land was forsaken/

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.”

– John Prine, “Paradise”, John Prine, A&R Records, New York, 1971.

From volume IV of the file · Book · 20th century

Themes: the land · progress