Paradise

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When I was a child my family would 
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travel
Down to western Kentucky where my 
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parents were born
There's a backwards old town that's 
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often remembered
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So many times that my memories are 
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worn

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And daddy won't you take me back to
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 Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where 
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Paradise lay
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Well I'm sorry my son but you're 
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too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has 
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hauled it away
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Well sometimes we'd travel right 
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down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by 
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Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes 
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and we'd shoot with our pistols
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But empty pop bottles was all we 
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would kill

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

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