Paradise
Key: AEnglish
Verse
AWhen I was a child my Dfamily Awould travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my paErents were Aborn
To a backwards old town I ofDten rememAbered
So many times that my meEmories are Aworn
Verse
AThen sometimes we'd travel on Ddown the Green RiAver
To the abandoned old prison down by AEdrian AHill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd Dshoot with our pisAtols
But empty pop bottles was all Ethat we'd Akill
Chorus
ADaddy won't you take me back to DMuhlenberg ACounty
Down by the green river where paEradise Alay?
I'm sorry my son but you're Dtoo late in asAking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauEled it aAway
Verse
AWell the coal company came with the Dworld's largest shoAvel
They stripped all the timber and torEtured the Aland
They dug for the coal till the Dland was forsaAken
Then they wrote it all down as the Eprogress of Aman
Chorus
ADaddy won't you take me back to DMuhlenberg ACounty
Down by the green river where paEradise Alay?
I'm sorry my son but you're Dtoo late in asAking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauEled it aAway
Verse
AWhen I die let my ashes float Ddown the Green RiAver
Let my soul roll on up to the RoEchester ADam
I'll be halfway to Heaven Dwith paradise waiAtin'
Five miles away from wheErever I am A
Chorus
ADaddy won't you take me back to DMuhlenberg ACounty
Down by the green river where paEradise Alay?
I'm sorry my son but you're Dtoo late in asAking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauEled it aAway
I'm sorry my son but you're Dtoo late in asAking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauEled it aAway