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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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To a backwards old town I often remembered
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So many times that my memories are worn
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Than, sometimes we'd travel on down the Green River
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To the abandoned old prison down by Adrian 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 that we?d kill

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

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

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