
Date of issue: 11.06.2007
Record label: Rhino Entertainment Company
Song language: English
Paradise |
When I was a child my family would travel |
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born |
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 dear, but you’re too late in asking |
Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away |
The coal company came with the world’s largest shovel |
They tortured the timber and stripped all the land |
They dug for their coal till the land was forsaken |
And 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 dear, but you’re too late in asking |
Mr. 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 waiting |
I’m 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 dear, but you’re too late in asking |
Mr. 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 waiting… |
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