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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- Dad won't you take me back to 
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Mulenburg County,
Down by the Green River where 
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paradise lays.
He said, "I'm sorry my son, but 
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you're too late in askin'.
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Mr Peabody's coal-train has hauled 
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it away." -

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Well sometimes we're travel right 
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down to Green River
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To the abandoned old prison down by
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 Avery Hill.
Where the air smelled like snakes, 
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we'd shoot with our pistols
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But empty pop bottles are all we 
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would kill.

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Then the coal company came with the
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 worlds largest shovel,
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They torchered the timber, stripped
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 all the land.
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Dug for the coal til the land was 
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forsaken.
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Wrote it all down as a progrss for 
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man.

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When I die let my ashes float down
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 the Green River,
Let my soul roll on up to the 
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Rodchester Dam.
And I'll be half way to Heaven with 
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paradise waitin'
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Just five miles away from whereever
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 I am.