Paradise Chords

Paradise chords
John Prine  (1971)

Capo II

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When I was a child my family would 
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travel,

down to Western Kentucky where my 
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parents were born

And there's a backwards old town 
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that's often remembered,
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so many times that my memories are 
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worn.

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

down by the Green River where 
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Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're 
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too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled 
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it away

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Well, sometimes we'd travel right 
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down the Green River,

to the abandoned old prison down by 
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Adrie Hill

Where the air smelled like snakes 
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and we'd shoot with our pistols,
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but empty pop bottles was all we 
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would kill.

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

down by the Green River where 
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Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're 
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too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled 
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it away

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Then the coal company came with the 
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world's largest shovel,

and they tortured the timber and 
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stripped all the land

Well, they dug for their coal till 
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the land was forsaken,

then they wrote it all down as the 
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progress of man.

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

down by the Green River where 
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Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're 
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too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled 
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it away

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When I die let my ashes float down 
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the Green River,

let my soul roll on up to the 
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Rochester dam

I'll be halfway to Heaven with 
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Paradise waitin',
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just five miles away from wherever I
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am.

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

down by the Green River where 
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Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're 
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too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled 
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it away

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