Key: C major
Verse 1
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When I was a child,
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my family would travel down to western Kentucky
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where my parents were born.
There's a backwards old town
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that's often remembered so many times
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An d Daddy, won't you take me back
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but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's coal train
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has hauled it away
Well sometimes we'd travel
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right down the Green River
To an abandoned old prison
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down by Edry Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes
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and we'd shoot with our pistols
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But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
And daddy, won't you take me back
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Down by the green river where paradise lay
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but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's coal train
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has hauled it away
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Then the coal company came
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with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber
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and stripped off all the land
Well, they dug for their coal
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as the progress of man
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And Daddy, won't you take me back
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where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in asking
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headway
When I die, my ashes float
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down the green river
Let my soul roll on up to
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the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to heaven
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with paradise waitin'
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Just five miles away from wherever I am
And Daddy, won't you take me back
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where paradise awaits
I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's coal train
Outro 1
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Am
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