Paradise

Intro
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Verse 1
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When I was a child my family would travel
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Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born,
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And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
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So many times that my memories are worn.

Chorus
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay,
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Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Verse 2
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Well sometimes we'd travel, right down the Green River
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To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill,
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Where the air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot with our pistols
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But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Chorus
     D                              G            D
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay,
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Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Verse 3
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Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel,
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And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land,
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Well they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken,
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Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

Chorus
     D                              G            D
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay,
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Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

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Verse 4
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When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River
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Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam,
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I'll be halfway to Heaven, with Paradise waiting
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Just five miles away from wherever I am.

Chorus
     D                              G            D
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
     D                         A        D
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay,
           D                       G            D
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
         D                       A          D
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.