Paradise

E A E E A E When I was a child my family would travel, E B7 E Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born E A E And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered, E B7 E So many times that my memories are worn. E A E Oh, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, E B7 E Down by the Green River where Paradise lay E A E I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, E B7 E Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away E A E E B7 E E A E Oh, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River, E B7 E To the abandoned old prison upon Adrie Hill E A E Where the air smelled like s*x and we'd shoot with our pistols, E B7 E But empty pop bottles is all that we'd k**l. E A E Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, E B7 E Down by the Green River where Paradise lay E A E Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, E B7 E Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away E A E E B7 E E A E Well, the coal company came with the world's largest shovel, E B7 E And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land E A E They cut it all down, lookin' for that coal, E B7 E And they wrote it all down as the progress of man. E A E Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, E B7 E Down by the Green River where Paradise lay E A E Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, E B7 E Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away E A E E B7 E E A E When I die let my ashes float down the Green River, E B7 E Then roll up on North to the Rochester dam E A E I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin', E B7 E Just five miles away from wherever I am. Chorus 4 E A E So, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, E B7 E Down by the Green River where Paradise lay E A E Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, E B7 E Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away N.C. B7 E Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away