Paradise-John Prine

[ti:Paradise] [ar:John Prine] [al:Coal Country Music Deluxe] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Paradise - John Prine [00:07.90]When I was a child my family would travel [00:11.41]Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born [00:14.94] [00:16.30]There's a backwards old town that's often remembered [00:19.86] [00:20.49]So many times that my memories are worn [00:23.85] [00:25.48]Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [00:29.02]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [00:32.67] [00:33.84]I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [00:37.87]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [00:41.42] [00:44.62]But sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River [00:48.43]To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill [00:52.04] [00:53.38]Where the air smelled like snakes [00:55.33]And we'd shoot with our pistols [00:56.99] [00:57.57]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [01:00.73] [01:02.63]Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [01:06.17]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [01:09.61] [01:10.97]I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [01:14.97]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:18.34] [01:39.45]And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel [01:43.40]We'll tortured the timber and stripped all the land [01:46.96] [01:48.39]They dug for their coal till the land was forsaken [01:51.69] [01:52.20]And they wrote it all down as the progress of man [01:55.73] [01:57.63]Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [02:01.29]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [02:04.75] [02:06.08]I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [02:10.12]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [02:13.64] [02:34.58]When I die let my ashes float down the Green River [02:38.51]Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam [02:42.00] [02:43.36]I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting [02:47.33]Just five miles away from wherever I am [02:50.73] [02:52.10]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [02:56.16]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [02:59.74] [03:01.08]I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking [03:05.09]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [03:08.59] [03:10.02]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [03:13.49] [03:14.97]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away