Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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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,
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so many times my memories are worn
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
I'm sorry, my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's gold train is
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hauling away
Sometimes we'd travel right
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down the Green River
To an abandoned old prison
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down by Andrew Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes
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and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles
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was all we'd kill
Daddy won't you take me back
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to Millburg 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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Then the coal company came with
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the world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber
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and stripped all the land
They dug for their coal
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till the land was forsaken
And wrote it all down as
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the progress of man
And Daddy, won't you take me back
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to Muldenburg County
Down by the Green River
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where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's coal train's
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hauled it away
When I die, let my ashes flow
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down the Green River
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Let my soul roll up to 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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to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river
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where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Outro 1
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