Paradise-Lynn Anderson

[ti:Paradise (Live)] [ar:Lynn Anderson] [al:30 Greatest Gold Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Paradise - Lynn Anderson [00:17.06]When I was a child my family would travel [00:20.09]Down to western Kentucky [00:21.79]Where my parents were born [00:23.07] [00:24.36]And there's a backwards old town [00:26.25]That's often remembered [00:27.32] [00:28.61]So many times that my mem'ries are worn [00:31.37] [00:32.91]And daddy won't you take me [00:34.44]Back to Muglenberg County [00:36.12]Down by the Green River where paradise lay [00:38.87] [00:40.34]Well I'm sorry my child [00:41.91]But you're too late in askin' [00:43.34] [00:44.36]Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [00:47.30] [00:57.76]Well sometimes we traveled [00:59.30]Right down the Green River [01:01.08]By the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill [01:04.10] [01:05.26]Where the air smelled like snakes [01:07.08]And we'd shoot with the pistols [01:08.50] [01:09.48]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [01:12.63] [01:13.86]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [01:16.86]Down by the green river where paradise lay [01:19.85] [01:21.16]Well I'm sorry my child but you're too late in asking [01:24.22] [01:25.51]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:28.30] [01:48.09]Then the coal company came [01:49.56]With the world's largest shovels [01:51.21]They tortured the timber [01:52.29] [01:52.80]And they stripped all the land [01:54.21] [01:55.21]Well they dug for the coal till [01:57.07]The land was forsaken [01:58.41] [01:59.29]Then we wrote it all down as [02:01.26]The progress of man [02:02.35] [02:03.83]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [02:06.34] [02:06.93]Down by the green river where paradise lay [02:09.76] [02:11.19]Well I'm sorry my child but you're too late in asking [02:14.51] [02:15.53]Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [02:18.33] [02:34.81]When I die let my ashes float down the Green River [02:37.41]Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam [02:40.43] [02:41.29]I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin' [02:44.48] [02:45.10]Just five miles away from wherever I am [02:48.01] [02:49.15]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County [02:52.29]Down by the green river where paradise lay [02:55.37] [02:56.57]Well I'm sorry my child but you're too late in asking [02:59.96] [03:00.67]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [03:03.69] [03:04.92]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away