Key: E major•
Verse 1
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When I was a child,
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my family would travel down
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to western Kentucky
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where my parents were born.
And there's a backwards old town
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So many times that my memories
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are warm
Daddy, won't you take me back
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to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River
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where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in asking
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Mr. Peabody's coal train, hold it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel
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right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison
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down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes
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and we'd shoot with our pistol
But empty pop bottles
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were all we could kill
And daddy won't you take me back
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to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river
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where paradise lays
Well, I'm sorry, my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's cold strain
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hauled it away Brian
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Then the coal company came with
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and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal
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till the land was forsaken
Then wrote it all down as
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the progress of man
And when I die,
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Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
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with paradise waiting
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Just five miles away from wherever I am
So daddy won't you take me back
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to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river
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where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's coal train
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hauled it away
Well, I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in asking
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