Paradise Chords

Paradise by John Prine
 
Capo 2
 
[Verse 1]
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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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And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
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So many times that the memories are worn
 
[Chorus]
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And 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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Well, 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
 
[Verse 2]
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Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
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To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie 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 we would kill
 
[Chorus]
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And 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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Well, 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
 
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
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And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
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Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
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Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
 
[Chorus]
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And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
          C                        F           C
Well, 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
 
[Verse 4]
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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 waiting
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Just five miles away from wherever I am
 
[Chorus]
    C                               F          C
And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
     C                        G        C
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
          C                        F           C
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
       C                        G          C
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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