Paradise

D D G D When I was a child my family would travel D A D Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born, D G D And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered D A D So many times that my memories are worn. 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. D G D Well sometimes we'd travel, right down the Green River D A D To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill, D G D Where the air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot with our pistols D A D But empty pop bottles was all we would k**l. 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. D G D Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel, D A D And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land, D G D Well they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken, D A D Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man. 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. D / /G /D / /A /D / / /G /D / /A /D / D G D When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River D A D Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam, D G D I'll be halfway to Heaven, with Paradise waiting D A D Just five miles away from wherever I am. 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.