Key: E 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 would go.
There's a backward old town
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that I often remember,
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so many times that my memories are old.
And, Daddy, won't you take
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me back
to Muhlenberg County
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where paradise lays?
Well, I'm sorry, my son,
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but you're too late in asking
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has hauled it away
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Sometimes we would travel
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right down the Green River
To abandon old prison
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down Paradise 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 would kill
Down by the green river
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where paradise sways
Well, I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in askin'
After Peabody's coal trains
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has hauled it away
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The coal company came
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with the world's largest shovel
And it tortured the timbers
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and stripped all the land
And they dug for the coal
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till the ground was forsaken
And loaded all down is
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the progress of man
And Daddy, won't you take me
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back to Mutenberg County,
down by the green neighborhood
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paradise way?
Well, I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in asking,
Mr. Big Body's cold train
Outro 1
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