Amish Paradise

"Amish Paradise"
Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic
from the album Bad Hair Day
B-side	"Everything You Know Is Wrong" "The Night Santa Went Crazy" (extra gory version)
Released	March 12, 1996
Recorded	January 15, 1996, in Houston, Texas
Genre	Comedy hip hop parody
Length	3:20
Label	Scotti Brothers
Songwriter(s)	Artis Ivey, Jr. Larry Sanders Doug Rasheed Stevie Wonder "Weird Al" Yankovic
Lyricist(s)	"Weird Al" Yankovic Sherwood Schwartz George Wyle
"Weird Al" Yankovic singles chronology
"Headline News" (1994) "Amish Paradise" (1996) "Gump" (1996)
Music video
"Amish Paradise" on YouTube

"Amish Paradise"^[1] is a 1996 single by satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of the hip hop song "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio featuring L.V. (which itself is a reworking of the Stevie Wonder song "Pastime Paradise"). Featured on the album Bad Hair Day, it turns the original "Gangsta's Paradise", in which the narrator laments his dangerous way of life, on its head by presenting an Amish man praising his relatively plain and uncomplicated existence.