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Paradise chords
John Prine (1971)
Capo II or open D G A7
C
C F C
When I was a child my family would travel,
G7 C
down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
F C
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered,
G7 C
so many times that my memories are worn.
C F C
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
G7 C
down by the Green River where Paradise lay
F C
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,
G7 C
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
C F C
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River,
G7 C
to the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
F C
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols,
G7 C
but empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
C F C
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
G7 C
down by the Green River where Paradise lay
F C
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,
G7 C
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
C F C
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel,
G7 C
and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
F C
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken,
G7 C
then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
C F C
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
G7 C
down by the Green River where Paradise lay
F C
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,
G7 C
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
C F C
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River,
G7 C
let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
F C
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin',
G7 C
just five miles away from wherever I am.
C F C
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
G7 C
down by the Green River where Paradise lay
F C
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,
G7 C
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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