Key: C major•
Verse 1
my family would travel
Down to western
were born
F
C
that's often remembered
G
C
So many times that my memories are worn
And daddy won't you take
me back to
F
Muhlenberg
C
County
Down by the green river
G
C
where paradise lays
I'm sorry my child but you're
F
C
too late in asking
G
Mr.
G
C
F
C
G
C
away
Well, sometimes we'd
Green
River
Hill
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C
we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles
G
C
was all we would kill
And
Daddy, won't you take
me back to
F
Muhlenberg
C
County
Down by the green river
G
C
where paradise lays
G
C
Well, I'm sorry my child,
F
C
but you're too late in asking
G
Mr.
C
B
F#
G
Peabody's gold train is hauling
C
G
C
F
C
G
C
away
G
C
Then the coal company came with
F
C
the world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber and
G
C
they stripped all the land
G
C
Well they dug for their coal till
F
C
the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as
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C
the progress of man
And
G
C
Daddy, won't you take
me back to
F
Muhlenberg
C
County
Down by the green river
G
C
where paradise lays
G
C
Well, I'm sorry my child,
F
C
but you're too late in asking
G
C
G
Mr.
B
G
C
has hauled it away
G
Mr.
C
G
Peabody's cold train is hauling away
Outro 1
G
C
F
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