John Prine seemed to do well with specifics. Of course he could do
well with anything he wrote being one of the all time greatest writers.

"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County"

"Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill"

(Lines are from Paradise for any reader who just entered our solar system)

I remember folks frequently musing over the meaning of "Airdrie."
Some folks sung it as "a grey hill."

FWIW and IMHO, I think the name of the county, the name of the river and the
name of the hill added to lyric. But who the heck am I, a mere mortal, to critique
a Prine tune smile


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