Paradise 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 thats often remembered 

So many times that my memory drew warn 

And daddy won't ya 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 an' we'd shoot off pistols 

Ahh but empty pop bottles is all we would kill 

And daddy won't ya 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 

Welll the coal compny' 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 ya 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 

Ohhh... and daddy won't ya 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. 

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