Paradise Chords
by John Prine95,877 views, added to favorites 4,240 times
| Difficulty: | absolute beginner |
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| Tuning: | E A D G B E |
| Capo: | no capo |
Author Unregistered. 2 contributors total, last edit on May 7, 2020
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[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 my memories are worn.
[Chorus]
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
D A D
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
D G D
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
D A D
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 2]
D G D
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]
D G D
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
D A D
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
D G D
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
D A D
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 3]
D G D
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 'til the land was forsaken
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Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
[Chorus]
D G D
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
D A D
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
D G D
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
D A D
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 4]
D G D
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]
D G D
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
D A D
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
D G D
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
D A D
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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12 comments
I use to play this when i was 20 - i am now 65 and playing again, and ran across it - funny
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I've played this song for decades, and had long ago forgotten that the real name was Paradise. Everyone just called it Mulenberg County (about 60 miles from where I live).
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Just watched Austin city limits. This was how John played it in 2018. Thanks. Sounds great.
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