Paradise Lyrics - Jackie Deshannon

When I was a child my family would travel 

Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born 

There's a backwards old town that's often remembered 

So many times that my memories are worn 

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

Down by the Green River where paradise lay" 

"Well, I'm sorry, my dear, but you're too late in asking 

Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away" 

The coal company came with the world's largest shovel 

They tortured the timber and stripped all the land 

They dug for their coal till the land was forsaken 

And wrote it all down as the progress of Man 

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

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay" 

"Well, I'm sorry, my dear, but you're too late in asking 

Mr. Peabody's coal train has 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 waiting 

I'm five miles away from wherever I am 

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

Down by the Green River where paradise lay" 

"Well, I'm sorry, my dear, but you're too late in asking 

Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away" 

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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 waiting 

... FADES