Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Paradise, artist - Dwight Yoakam. Album song Dwight's Used Records, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 30.09.2015
Record label: New West
Song language: English
Paradise |
When I was a child my family would travel |
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born |
And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered |
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 Airdrie 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 the 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 |