Paradise Lyrics

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 Adrie 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
And 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
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