I Said (paradise Reprise) Lyrics - Dwight's Used Records - Dwight Yoakam

When I was a boy my family would travel 

Inta' Western Kentucky where my parents were born 

To a lost little town there that's often remembered 

So many times that my memory drew warn 

And daddy won't me take me back to Mulingburg County 

Down by the green river where Paradise lay 

He said, "I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' 

Mr. Peabodys' coal trains hauled it away" 

Well, sometimes we travel right down the green river 

To the abandoned old prison down by Gadry Hill 

Where the air smelled like snakes, we'd shoot off pistols 

Ahh, but empty pop bottles is all we would kill 

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And daddy won't me take me back to Mulingburg County 

Down by the green river where paradise lay 

He said, "I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' 

Mr. Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away" 

Well, the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel 

They tortured the timber and stripped all of the land 

Lord, they dug for their coal 'til the ground was forsaken 

Then wrote it all down as a the 'Progress Of Man' 

So daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County 

Down by the green river where Paradise lay 

He said, "I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' 

Mr. Peabodys' coal trains hauled it away" 

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 5 miles away from wherever I am 

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Ohh, and daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County 

Down by the green river where Paradise lay 

He said, "I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' 

Mr. Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away" 

He said, "I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin' 

Mr. Peabodys coal train has hauled it away 

Oh, Mr. Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away"