Lyrics Paradise.lrc John Prine
[id: pshlufpv]
[ar: John Prine]
[al: German Afternoons]
[ti: Paradise]
[length: 03:29]
[00:07.95]When I was a child, my family would travel
[00:10.93]Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
[00:16.02]And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered
[00:20.04]So many times that my memories are worn
[00:24.00]And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[00:28.00]Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
[00:33.01]Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking
[00:37.12]Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
[00:44.23]Well, sometimes we’d travel right down the Green River
[00:48.39]To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
[00:53.28]Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols
[00:57.27]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
[01:00.25]And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[01:05.20]Down by the green river where paradise lay?
[01:10.34]Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking
[01:14.34]Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
[01:30.46]Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel
[01:42.59]And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
[01:47.58]Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
[01:51.60]Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
[01:56.69]And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[02:01.66]Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
[02:05.54]Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking
[02:09.70]Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
[02:34.79]When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
[02:37.63]Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
[02:42.60]I’ll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin’
[02:46.76]Just five miles away from wherever I am
[02:51.79]And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[02:54.77]Down by the green river where paradise lay?
[03:00.89]Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
[03:04.94]Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
[03:26.00]Year of Release: 2011