Paradise-Lynn Anderson

[00:06.54]When I was a child my family would travel [00:09.94]Down to western kentucky where my parents were born [00:14.15]And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered [00:18.58]So many times that my mem'ries are worn [00:22.74]And daddy won't you take me back to muglenberg county [00:25.98]Down by the green river where paradise lay [00:30.00]Well I'm sorry my child but you're too late in asking [00:34.31]Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away [00:38.00] [00:46.12]Well sometimes we traveled right down the green river [00:49.43]By the abandoned old prison down by adrie hill [00:53.74]Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with the pistols [00:58.05]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [01:02.21]And daddy won't you take me back to ,muglenberg county [01:05.64]Down by the green river where paradise lay [01:09.76]Well I'm sorry my child you're too late in asking [01:13.98]Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:18.00] [01:27.45]The coal company came with the world's largest shovels [01:30.77]They tortured the timber and they stripped all the land [01:34.79]They dug for the coal 'til the land was forsaken [01:38.98]Then we wrote it all down as the progress of man [01:43.54]And daddy won't you take me back to muglenberg county [01:46.78]Down by the green river where paradise lay [01:50.90]Well I'm sorry my child you're too late in asking [01:54.96]Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:59.00] [02:08.23]When I daddy my asked pulled down the bring ever [02:11.67]My soul longmer to the rocks down [02:15.72]I'll be happyed ever with paradise waiting [02:19.54]I must wait from worry ever a him [02:23.80]And daddy won't you take me back to muglenberg county [02:26.94]Down by the green river where paradise lay [02:31.32]I'm sorry my child you're too late in asking [02:35.38]Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away [02:39.48]Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away [02:48.00]