Paradise chords by
The Bluegrass Alliance
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Key: G major
Intro 1
G
G

D
D

C
C

D
D

G
G

D
D

G
G

C
C

Verse 1
D
D

G
G

When I was a child,
C
C

G
G

my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky,
D
D

where my parents were born
G
G

There's a backwoods old town
C
C

G
G

there that's often remembered
So many times that my
D
D

G
G

memories are worn
F#
F#

F
F

Danny, won't you take me back
C
C

G
G

to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river
C#
C#

D
D

G
G

where paradise lay
F
F

I'm sorry, my son,
C
C

G
G

F#
F#

G
G

but you're too late in asking
F#
F#

G
G

Mr. Peabody's coal train
D
D

G
G

has hauled it away
The coal company came
C
C

G
G

with the world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber
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D

G
G

and stripped all the land
They dug for their coal
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C

G
G

until the land was forsaken
And they marked it all down
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D

G
G

as the progress of man
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F#

F
F

Daddy, won't you take me back
B
B

C
C

F#
F#

to New Lindbergh County
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G

F#
F#

Down by the green river
Gb
Gb

Db
Db

D
D

G
G

where paradise lay
F
F

I'm sorry, my son,
B
B

Gb
Gb

but you're too late in asking
G
G

F#
F#

Mr. Peabody's coal
C#
C#

F#
F#

train has stalled away
G
G

When I die, let my ashes fall
C
C

G
G

down the Green River
D
D

Let my soul go on up to the Rochester
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G

Down I'll be halfway to heaven
F#
F#

G
G

C
C

G
G

with paradise waiting
F#
F#

G
G

F#
F#

I'll be lonely and weep
G
G

D
D

G
G

for whatever I'm
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F#

F
F

Daddy, won't you take me back
C
C

G
G

F#
F#

to Muhlenberg County,
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G

F#
F#

down by the Green River
G
G

D
D

G
G

where paradise lay?
F#
F#

G
G

F
F

I'm sorry, my son,
B
B

G
G

but you're too late in asking
Gb
Gb

Gb
Gb

Mr. Peabody's coal train
C#
C#

D
D

F#
F#

E
E

A
A

that's hauling away
G
G

C#
C#

D
D

Daddy, won't you take me back
G
G

F#
F#

C#
C#

to Muhlenberg County
Db
Db

Down by the green river
Db
Db

Ab
Ab

Db
Db

where paradise lays
I'm sorry, my son,
Gb
Gb

Db
Db

but you're too late in asking
Db
Db

Mr. Peabody's coal
train has hauled it away
D
D

C#
C#

Mr. Peabody's coal train
D
D

has hauled it away
Thank

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