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Paradise Folk Songs
When [D]I was a child, my f[G]amily would tr[D]avel
Down to W[D]estern Kentucky where my p[A]arents were b[D]orn
And there's a b[D]ackwards old town, that's [G]often rem[D]embered
[D]So many times that the m[A7]em'ries are w[D]orn
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Daddy won't you take me back to Nunemburg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
"I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has a-hauled it away"
Well, sometimes we travel right down to Green River
To the abandoned old mine on down by acre hill (?)
Where the air smell like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pot bottles was all we would kill
Chorus
Well the coal comp'ny came with the worlds largest shovel
Well they tore thru the timber and dug all the land
Then they dug for the core, till the land was forsaken
Then they run it all down as the progress of man
Chorus
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 waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
Chorus
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