Paradise

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When I was a child my family would 
travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my 
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parents were born
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To a backwards old town I often 
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remembered
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So many times that my memories are 
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worn
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Than, sometimes we'd travel on 
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down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by 
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Adrian 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 that 
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we?d kill

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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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                              D 
I'm sorry my son, but you're too 
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late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has 
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hauled it away"
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Well the coal company came with 
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the world's largest shovel
They stripped all the timber and 
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tortured the land
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They dug for the coal till the land
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 was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the 
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progress of man

A                             
Daddy won't you take me back to 
   D          A
Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where 
 E        A
paradise lay?"
                              D 
I'm sorry my son, but you're too 
          A
late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has 
  E         A
hauled it away"

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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
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I'll be halfway to Heaven with 
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paradise waitin'
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Five miles away from wherever I am
A                             
Daddy won't you take me back to 
   D          A
Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where 
 E        A
paradise lay?"
                              D 
I'm sorry my son, but you're too 
          A
late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has 
  E         A
hauled it away"
                              D 
I'm sorry my son, but you're too 
          A
late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has 
  E         A
hauled it away"