"Carota wrote "Among the Green Bottles," a bitter tune about the brewery's fate set to the melody of an old Kentucky mining song. It goes: "Oh Daddy, won't you take me back to Westmoreland County / Down by the Loyalhanna where the Rolling Rock lays. / Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking / InBev and AB have hauled it away."
I'm not sure it's an "old" coal mining song. I think it's an anti-coal mining song by John Prine, and not all that old:
And daddy won't you take me back to Mulenberg county
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Unless Mr. Prine got it from somewhere else.
John Prine wrote it. It was on his first album, which was release in 1971, so I guess by some standards that makes it an "old" song.
There's a John Prine Avenue in Muhlenberg County, of course.