
Date of issue: 14.09.1972
Song language: English
Paradise |
Daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County |
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay |
I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking |
Mister Peabody’s coal train done hauled it away |
When I was a child, my family would travel |
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born |
To a backwards old town that I’ve often remembered |
So many times that my mem’ries are worn |
And sometimes we’d travel right down the Green River |
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrian’s Hill |
Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols |
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill |
So daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County |
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay |
I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking |
Mister Peabody’s coal train done hauled it away |
And the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel |
They stripped all the timber and tortured the land |
they dug for the coal till the land was forsaken |
Then they wrote it all down to the progress of man |
Oh daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County |
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay |
I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking |
Mister Peabody’s coal train done 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' |
Five miles away from where ever I am Oh daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County |
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay |
I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking |
Mister Peabody’s coal train done hauled it away |
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