From the recording Adventure Sure Enough
Thank you John Prine for your songs and music. You lifted generations with laughter, emotion, and inspiration. May your songs live in the Paradise of our hearts, big ears, guitars, and radios forever.
Steve Hanson – Acoustic Guitar, Double Bass, Mandolin
Ron Johnson –Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Lyrics
1) JOHN PRINE THE MISSING YEARS
Every time I fall in love, it somehow slips away,
But I listen to your LP, sing along and play.
Now without you here to pull me up, I’m facing all my sins,
Oh. to hear your voice, love and laugh again.
Chorus:
John Prine please call me from that big old field afar.
I’m still searching for Paradise in the back seat of my car.
The tree of forgiveness is never long distance.
Say hello in there and a song or two go with us.
I’m watching the birds; I’m taking a walk.
I hear buzzing of bees and buzzing of talk.
Cathy was so far from me sitting close in that car,
I wish her all the best back home on mars.
(Chorus)
From his barracks in the army, the singing mailman delivers,
Muhlenberg truth and a coal company shivers.
Lots of peaches, topless dancers, try to find Jesus on your own.
I remember every smile I’ve ever known.
(Chorus)