Paradise Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

DWhen I was a child my Gfamily would Dtravel

DDown to Western Kentucky where my Aparents were Dborn

DAnd there's a backwards old town that's oGften remeDmbered

DSo many times that my Amemories are Dworn.

DAnd daddy won't you take me back to GMuhlenberg DCounty

DDown by the Green River where AParadise Dlay

DWell, I'm sorry my son, but you're tGoo late in Dasking

DMister Peabody's coal train has Ahauled it aDway

Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River

To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols

But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

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

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 till the land was forsaken

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

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

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 waiting

Just five miles away from wherever I am.

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