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
And there's a backwards old town 
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that's 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
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're 
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too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled
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 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.

    C                              
And daddy won't you take me back to
 F          C
 Muhlenberg County,
down by the Green River where 
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Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're 
F           C
too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled
     C
 it away

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Then the coal company came with the
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 world's largest shovel,
and 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.

    C                              
And daddy won't you take me back to
 F          C
 Muhlenberg County,
down by the Green River where 
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Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're 
F           C
too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled
     C
 it away

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When I die let my ashes float down
           C
 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 waitin',
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just five miles away from wherever 
  C
I am.

    C                              
And daddy won't you take me back to
 F          C
 Muhlenberg County,
down by the Green River where 
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Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're 
F           C
too late in asking,
                             G7    
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled
     C
 it away