Paradise-J. Tex

[ti:Paradise] [ar:J. Tex] [al:One Of These Days] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.30]Paradise - J. Tex [00:09.21]And daddy won't you take me back to [00:11.48]Muhlenberg County [00:13.23]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [00:17.09]Well I'm sorry my son [00:19.08]But you're too late in asking [00:21.43]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [00:25.41] [00:26.45]When I was a child my family would travel [00:30.55]Down to western Kentucky [00:32.22]Where my parents were born [00:34.58] [00:35.10]And there's a backwards old town [00:37.65]That's often remembered [00:39.69]So many times that my memories are worn [00:43.87] [00:44.83]And daddy won't you take me back to [00:47.09]Muhlenberg County [00:48.81]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [00:52.63]Well I'm sorry my son [00:54.61]But you're too late in asking [00:57.02]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:00.81] [01:02.05]Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River [01:05.90]To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill [01:09.95] [01:11.19]Where the air smelled like snakes [01:12.92]And we'd shoot with our pistols [01:15.29]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [01:19.22] [01:20.34]And daddy won't you take me back to [01:22.65]Muhlenberg County [01:24.49]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [01:28.31]Well I'm sorry my son [01:30.24]But you're too late in asking [01:32.60]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [01:36.50] [01:54.47]And the coal company came with [01:57.05]The world's largest shovel [01:59.02]They tortured the timber [02:01.07]And stripped all the land [02:02.80] [02:03.54]And then they dug for their coal [02:05.85]Till the land was forsaken [02:08.08]Then they wrote it all down [02:09.77]As to progress of man [02:11.87] [02:13.26]And daddy won't you take me [02:15.02]Back to Muhlenberg County [02:17.32]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [02:21.16]Well I'm sorry my son [02:23.14]But you're too late in asking [02:25.47]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [02:29.39] [02:30.30]When I die let my ashes float [02:32.86]Down the Green River [02:34.36]Let my soul roll on up [02:36.40]To the Rochester dam [02:38.48] [02:39.45]I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waiting [02:43.78]Just five miles away from wherever I am [02:48.03] [02:48.87]And daddy won't you take me [02:50.64]Back to Muhlenberg County [02:52.91]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay [02:56.74]Well I'm sorry my son [02:58.72]But you're too late in asking [03:01.10]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away miss [03:05.00] [03:05.67]Peabody's coal train has hauled it away miss [03:09.12] [03:09.74]Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [03:13.35]