Paradise-Dwight Yoakam

[ti:Paradise] [ar:Dwight Yoakam] [al:Dwight's Used Records] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Paradise - Dwight Yoakam [00:13.49]When I was a boy my family would travel [00:17.80] [00:22.86]Inta' Western Kentucky where my parents were born [00:27.07] [00:32.07]To a lost little town there that's often remembered [00:37.11] [00:42.32]So many times that my memory drew warn [00:46.96] [00:52.21]And daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County [00:56.76] [01:01.80]Down by the green river where Paradise lay [01:06.44] [01:11.08]He said I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' [01:15.92] [01:20.87]Mr Peabodys' coal trains hauled it away [01:25.00] [01:30.20]Well sometimes we travel right down the green river [01:35.01] [01:40.11]To the abandoned old prison down by Gadry Hill [01:44.70] [01:49.49]Where the air smelled like snakes an' we'd shoot off pistols [01:54.01] [01:58.63]Oh empty pop bottles is all we would kill [02:03.28] [02:08.01]And daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County [02:13.04] [02:17.65]Down by the green river where paradise lay [02:22.27] [02:26.94]He said I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' [02:31.64] [02:36.46]Mr Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away [02:40.70] [03:21.22]Welll the coal compny' came with the worlds largest shovel [03:27.37] [03:32.56]They tortured the timber and stripped all of the land [03:36.65] [03:40.42]Lord they dug for their coal till the ground was forsaken [03:45.65] [03:50.95]Then wrote it all down as a the Progress Of Man [03:55.07] [03:59.72]So daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County [04:04.56] [04:09.10]Down by the green river where Paradise lay [04:13.62] [04:18.19]He said I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' [04:22.68] [04:27.23]Mr Peabodys' coal trains hauled it away [04:31.74] [04:36.66]When I die let my ashes float down the green river [04:40.85] [04:45.41]Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam [04:49.45] [04:53.63]I'll be halfway to heaven with Paradise waitin' [04:58.94] [05:03.49]Just 5 miles away from wherever I am [05:07.95] [05:10.25]Ohhh and daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County [05:17.22] [05:21.53]Down by the green river where Paradise lay [05:25.85] [05:30.60]He said I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' [05:35.05] [05:39.70]Mr Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away [05:44.36] [05:47.43]He said I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' [05:53.39] [05:58.37]Mr Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away [06:02.32] [06:06.48]Mr Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away