Artist: | John Prine (English) |
User: | mark clarke |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Paradise}
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When [D]I was a child my fa[G]mily would tr[D]avel
Down to Western Kentucky where my pa[A7]rents were b[D]orn
And there's a backwards old town that's [G]often rem[D]embered
So many times that my me[A7]mories are w[D]orn.
And da[D]ddy won't you take me back to Muh[G]lenberg Co[D]unty
Down by the Green River where Par[A7]adise l[D]ay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're t[G]oo late in as[D]king
Mister Peabody's coal train has h[A7]auled it a[D]way
Well, so[D]metimes we'd travel right d[G]own the Green R[D]iver
To the abandoned old prison down by A[A7]drie H[D]ill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd sh[G]oot with our pi[D]stols
But empty pop bottles was a[A7]ll we would k[D]ill.
And da[D]ddy won't you take me back to Muh[G]lenberg Co[D]unty
Down by the Green River where Par[A7]adise l[D]ay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're t[G]oo late in as[D]king
Mister Peabody's coal train has h[A7]auled it a[D]way
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Then the c[D]oal company came with the wo[G]rld's largest sh[D]ovel
And they tortured the timber and str[A7]ipped all the l[D]and
Well, they dug for their coal till the l[G]and was for[D]saken
Then they wrote it all down as the pr[A7]ogress of m[D]an.
And da[D]ddy won't you take me back to Muh[G]lenberg Co[D]unty
Down by the Green River where Par[A7]adise l[D]ay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're t[G]oo late in as[D]king
Mister Peabody's coal train has h[A7]auled it a[D]way
When I d[D]ie let my ashes float d[G]own the Green R[D]iver
Let my soul roll on up to the Roc[A7]hester d[D]am
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Par[G]adise wa[D]itin'
Just five miles away from wh[A7]erever I [D]am.
And da[D]ddy won't you take me back to Muh[G]lenberg Co[D]unty
Down by the Green River where Par[A7]adise l[D]ay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're t[G]oo late in as[D]king
Mister Peabody's coal train has h[A7]auled it a[D]way