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Paradise
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[Verse 1]
When I was a child
My family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky
Where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town
That's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
[Verse 2]
And, daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 3]
Well, sometimes we'd travel
Right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison
Down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes
And we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
[Verse 4]
And, daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 5]
Then the coal company came
With the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber
And stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal
'Til the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
[Verse 6]
And, daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 7]
When I die let my ashes
Float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up
To the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven
With Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
[Verse 8]
And, daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Written by: John E. Prine
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