Paradise

When I was a child my family would travel

Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

And there's a backward old town that I often remember

So many times that my memories are worn.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River

To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with

our pistols

But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Then the coal company came with the world's largest

shovel

And they tortured the timber and stripped all our land

Well, they dug for their coal till the land was

forsaken

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River

Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam

I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'

Just five miles away from wherever I am

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay...