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Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott / eTones - "Paradise" (eTown webisode #567)
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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
Performer
Darrell Scott
Darrell Scott
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
John Prine
John Prine
Songwriter

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
When I was a child
My family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky
Where my parents were born
There's a backwards old town
That's often remembered
So many times
That my memories are worn
[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
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 is all we would kill
[Verse 4]
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
[Verse 5]
Then the coal company come with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
And they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down, as the progress of man
[Verse 6]
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
[Verse 7]
Now when I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be a halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from, wherever I am
[Verse 8]
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
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Written by: John Prine

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