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	D	G	D
When	I was a child my	family would	travel

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Down to	Western Kentucky where my	parents were	born

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And there's a	backwards old town that's	often re-	membered

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	So many times that my	memories are	worn.

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

	D	A	D
Down	by the Green River where	Paradise	lay

	D	G	D
Well, I'm	sorry my son, but you're t	oo late in	asking

	D	A	D
Mister	Peabody's coal train has	hauled it a	way

	D	G	D
Well	sometimes we'd travel right	down the Green	River

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To the a-	bandoned old prison down by	Adrie	Hill

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Where the	air smelled like snakes and we'd	shoot with our	pistols

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But	empty pop bottles was	all we would	kill.

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

	D	A	D
Down	by the Green River where	Paradise	lay

	D	G	D
Well, I'm	sorry my son, but you're t	oo late in	asking

	D	A	D
Mister	Peabody's coal train has	hauled it a	way

	D	G	D
Then the	coal company came with the	world's largest	shovel

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And they	tortured the timber and	stripped all the	land

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Well, they	dug for their coal till the	land was for-	saken

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

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

	D	A	D
Down	by the Green River where	Paradise	lay

	D	G	D
Well, I'm	sorry my son, but you're t	oo late in	asking

	D	A	D
Mister	Peabody's coal train has	hauled it a	way

	D	G	D
When I	die let my ashes float	down the Green	River

	D	A	D
Let my	soul roll on up to the	Rochester	dam

	D	G	D
I'll be	halfway to Heaven with	Paradise	waiting

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Just	five miles away from wher-	ever I	am.

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

	D	A	D
Down	by the Green River where	Paradise	lay

	D	G	D
Well, I'm	sorry my son, but you're t	oo late in	asking

	D	A	D
Mister	Peabody's coal train has	hauled it a	way

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Paradise

John Prine

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