Paradise
John Prine

CAPO 7th Fret (D Major)

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When I was a child, my family would travel
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Down to western Kentucky where my parents where born
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And there's a backward old town that's often remembered
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So many times that my memories are worn

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And, Daddy, won't you take me back to Mulenburg 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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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

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Now, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
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To the abandoned old prison down by Avery Hill
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Where the air smelled like snakes, we'd shoot with our pistols
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But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

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And, Daddy, won't you take me back to Mulenburg 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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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it awa

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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 until the land was forsaken
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And they wrote it all down to the progress of man

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When I die let my ashes flow down the Green River
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Let my soul flow on up to the Rochester Dam
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I'll be half way to heaven with Paradise waiting
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Just five miles away from where ever I am

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And, Daddy, won't you take me back to Mulenburg 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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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away