John Prine - Paradise

When ^CI was a child my ^Ffamily would ^Ctravel, down to Western Kentucky where my ^G7parents were ^Cborn And there's a backwards old town that's ^Foften re^Cmembered, so many times that my ^G7memories are ^Cworn.

And ^Cdaddy won't you take me back to ^FMuhlenberg ^CCounty, down by the Green River where ^G7Paradise ^Clay Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're ^Ftoo late in ^Casking, Mr. Peabody's coal train has ^G7hauled it a^Cway

Well, ^Csometimes we'd travel right ^Fdown the Green ^CRiver, to the abandoned old prison down by ^G7Adrie ^CHill Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd ^Fshoot with our ^Cpistols, but empty pop bottles was ^G7all we would ^Ckill.

And ^Cdaddy won't you take me back to ^FMuhlenberg ^CCounty, down by the Green River where ^G7Paradise ^Clay Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're ^Ftoo late in ^Casking, Mr. Peabody's coal train has ^G7hauled it a^Cway

Then the ^Ccoal company came with the ^Fworld's largest ^Cshovel, and they tortured the timber and ^G7stripped all the ^Cland Well, they dug for their coal till the ^Fland was for^Csaken, then they wrote it all down as the ^G7progress of ^Cman.

And ^Cdaddy won't you take me back to ^FMuhlenberg ^CCounty, down by the Green River where ^G7Paradise ^Clay Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're ^Ftoo late in ^Casking, Mr. Peabody's coal train has ^G7hauled it a^Cway

When I ^Cdie let my ashes float ^Fdown the Green ^CRiver, let my soul roll on up to the ^G7Rochester ^Cdam I'll be halfway to Heaven with ^FParadise ^Cwaitin', just five miles away from wher^G7ever I ^Cam.

And ^Cdaddy won't you take me back to ^FMuhlenberg ^CCounty, down by the Green River where ^G7Paradise ^Clay Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're ^Ftoo late in ^Casking, Mr. Peabody's coal train has ^G7hauled it a^Cway